Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gecko Robotics Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical area for the company's current patenting activity. Despite the shared art unit, the matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning the company must navigate two different individual perspectives within that single technical field. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a consistent technical strategy even as different examiners review the applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SINGER, DAVID L, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This accounts for one of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit indicates that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the prosecution experience may vary based on the specific examiner assigned. Practitioners should look for consistency in the 1 distinct art unit while preparing for the individual styles of the 2 distinct examiners who are overseeing the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGER, DAVID L | 1 | 69.1% | +42.2% |
| GUNN, JEREMY L | 1 | 29.9% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479624 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS TO INTEGRATE INSPECTION DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479624 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS TO INTEGRATE INSPECTION DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 19d |
| 18917514 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED LOCATION IDENTIFICATION WITH PRISM | SINGER, DAVID L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917514 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED LOCATION IDENTIFICATION WITH PRISM | SINGER, DAVID L | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18479624 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS TO INTEGRATE INSPECTION DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYSIS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
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