Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bonsai Robotics Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current prosecution efforts on a single official. The action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which defines the technical category for the pending robotics technology. This focused placement allows for a targeted legal strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the assigned examination group.
The busiest examiner, CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT, is overseeing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's pending workload at the USPTO. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the timeline for resolution is tied to the specific review pace of this examiner. Practitioners should analyze the historical trends of this art unit and examiner to develop a targeted response that addresses the specific concerns raised in the pending office action. Success in this matter will depend on navigating the specific procedural norms of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 35.2% | +18.0% |
| CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 1 | 66.5% | +48.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19323213 | Spreading Device and System | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19323213 | Spreading Device and System | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | — |
| 18612947 | IDENTIFYING A SHAKE POINT OF A TREE FOR AUTONOMOUS HARVESTING | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19323213 | Spreading Device and System | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 18612947 | IDENTIFYING A SHAKE POINT OF A TREE FOR AUTONOMOUS HARVESTING | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBonsai Robotics Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Spencer Thomas Callaway has the most, with 1 of Bonsai Robotics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
