Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Droneup LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to navigate the specific requirements of 4 separate examiners simultaneously.
The 4 pending office actions are located within 2 distinct art units. Juan Salvador Moscoso is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution activity is spread across multiple technical groups and individual reviewers. Each of the 4 distinct examiners is managing 1 pending office action, requiring the company to coordinate its responses across 4 different points of contact. This structure requires the applicant to maintain consistent arguments across 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 1 | 87.5% | +16.7% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 88.8% | +16.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400948 | UNMANNED VEHICLE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED ROBOTIC INTERNAL PACKAGE TRANSFER AND METHODS OF USE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 16d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441875 | AUTOMATIC GRASPER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18441858 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO GRASP AND RELEASE PACKAGES AT AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400948 | UNMANNED VEHICLE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED ROBOTIC INTERNAL PACKAGE TRANSFER AND METHODS OF USE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 16d |
| 18441875 | AUTOMATIC GRASPER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18441858 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO GRASP AND RELEASE PACKAGES AT AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | — |
| 18401015 | MULTIPRONGED END EFFECTOR OF ROBOTIC ARM IN AN UNMANNED VEHICLE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL PACKAGE TRANSFER AND METHODS OF USE | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 2 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18441875 | AUTOMATIC GRASPER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18441858 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO GRASP AND RELEASE PACKAGES AT AN UNMANNED VEHICLE | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18401015 | MULTIPRONGED END EFFECTOR OF ROBOTIC ARM IN AN UNMANNED VEHICLE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL PACKAGE TRANSFER AND METHODS OF USE | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18400948 | UNMANNED VEHICLE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED ROBOTIC INTERNAL PACKAGE TRANSFER AND METHODS OF USE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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