Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecential Robotics has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is currently reviewing a single pending matter for the company. This distribution prevents a concentration of risk with any individual examiner. The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. This indicates a high degree of technical diversity or a very specific filing strategy where each application lands in a different examination group.
MOYER, DALE S is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. For a portfolio of this size, the alignment of 3 pending actions, 3 examiners, and 3 art units is notable. It suggests that Ecential Robotics is navigating multiple specialized silos within the USPTO simultaneously. Practitioners can expect that the outcome of each 1 pending action will depend on the specific standards of the 3 distinct art units involved. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the unique requirements of three different technical groups and three different examiners without any overlap in the current pending set.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOYER, DALE S | 1 | 81.6% | +16.3% |
| PATEL, JAY M | 1 | 64.6% | +39.2% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140479 | ROBOTIC TRAJECTORY AXIS ADJUSTMENT INTERFACE | MOYER, DALE S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032261 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A TRAJECTORY OF A MOTORIZED C-ARM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140479 | ROBOTIC TRAJECTORY AXIS ADJUSTMENT INTERFACE | MOYER, DALE S | — |
| 18560509 | System for Identifying During Surgery a Risk of Modification of a Geometric Relationship Between a Tracker Attached to a Patient and a Tracked Bone of the Patient | PATEL, JAY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19140479 | ROBOTIC TRAJECTORY AXIS ADJUSTMENT INTERFACE | MOYER, DALE S | 3656 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18560509 | System for Identifying During Surgery a Risk of Modification of a Geometric Relationship Between a Tracker Attached to a Patient and a Tracked Bone of the Patient | PATEL, JAY M | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18032261 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A TRAJECTORY OF A MOTORIZED C-ARM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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