Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Dexterity Inc.

17 pending office actions • 5 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

10
Hard (59%)
6
Medium (35%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (12%)
§101 + other1 (6%)
§103 only6 (35%)
Double-patenting only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (41%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
82% of docket
3
Business / Other
18% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 2 63.6% +66.7%
NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL 1
BUI, NHI QUYNH 1 71.8% +10.9%
EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O 1 75.4% +3.1%
ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 1 79.7% +23.1%
DIAZ, THOMAS C 1 68.4% +19.0%
EVANS, KARSTON G 1 70.1% +16.9%
BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN 1 82.6% +17.3%
MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 1 52.9% +55.7%
HANNAN, B M M 1 82.2% +17.9%

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18988590 ROBOTIC KITTING MACHINE EVANS, KARSTON G 3d overdue
17960539 MULTI-MODE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED 12d
18652538 FEATURE RECOGNITION AND PROPER ORIENTATION IN ITEM PLACEMENT BY A ROBOT NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE 41d
19314826 ROBOTIC AIRPORT BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL
19274368 OVERLOAD ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC ARM BUI, NHI QUYNH
19182468 INTEGRATED ROBOTIC CONTROLLER EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O
19180914 ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC SINGULATION SYSTEM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF
19018844 ROBOTIC UNLOADER/LOADER SYSTEM DIAZ, THOMAS C

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18491259 CAMERA CALIBRATION PROCESS AND INTERFACE O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 36d overdue
18988590 ROBOTIC KITTING MACHINE EVANS, KARSTON G 3d overdue
18896341 AUTONOMOUS END EFFECTOR SELECTION AND MOUNTING MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 6d
17696237 MULTI-MODE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 14d
19274368 OVERLOAD ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC ARM BUI, NHI QUYNH
19180914 ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC SINGULATION SYSTEM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF
19018844 ROBOTIC UNLOADER/LOADER SYSTEM DIAZ, THOMAS C
18970634 DETECTION OF HEAVY OBJECTS USING COMPUTER VISION BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3656 4
3657 4
3658 4
3653 1
3654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19314826 ROBOTIC AIRPORT BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL 3656 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2025
19274368 OVERLOAD ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC ARM BUI, NHI QUYNH 3656 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2025
19182468 INTEGRATED ROBOTIC CONTROLLER EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2025
19180914 ADAPTIVE ROBOTIC SINGULATION SYSTEM ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 3656 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2025
19018844 ROBOTIC UNLOADER/LOADER SYSTEM DIAZ, THOMAS C §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 13, 2025
18988590 ROBOTIC KITTING MACHINE EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18970634 DETECTION OF HEAVY OBJECTS USING COMPUTER VISION BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN 3653 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18896341 AUTONOMOUS END EFFECTOR SELECTION AND MOUNTING MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 3658 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18891250 ROBOT-CONTROLLED LOADER SYSTEM HANNAN, B M M §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18794652 SINGULATION OF ARBITRARY MIXED ITEMS KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 3657 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 05, 2024
18652538 FEATURE RECOGNITION AND PROPER ORIENTATION IN ITEM PLACEMENT BY A ROBOT NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE 3658 §102§103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 01, 2024
18599859 PROJECTED ISSUE DISPLAY FOR HUMAN INTERVENTION IN ROBOTIC SYSTEM OH, HARRY Y 3657 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18393504 MULTIPLE ROBOT SIMULTANEOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS PICK AND PLACE KHAYER, SOHANA T 3657 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18491259 CAMERA CALIBRATION PROCESS AND INTERFACE O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 3658 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2023
18239600 ROBOT WITH SEVEN OR MORE DEGREES OF FREEDOM MOYER, DALE S 3656 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2023
17960539 MULTI-MODE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED 3654 §102§103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Oct 05, 2022
17696237 MULTI-MODE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 16, 2022

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