Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gideon Brothers D O O has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows a slight concentration of matters, as the 4 pending office actions exceed the 3 distinct examiners. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the company's mechanical and transportation filings are focused within a narrow range of technical classifications.
MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. This means that 2 of the 4 pending office actions are under the review of a single individual. The remaining actions are split between the other 2 distinct examiners. For practitioners, the concentration under MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE and within 2 distinct art units suggests that successful arguments in one case might be applicable to others in the portfolio. The 4 pending office actions represent a focused prosecution effort where practitioners can leverage the overlap in 2 distinct art units to ensure consistency in technical arguments and legal strategies.
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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 2 | 72.7% | +30.3% |
| ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | 1 | 88.5% | +11.7% |
| KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V | 1 | 87.0% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919034 | MODEL-BASED AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS ON PIECEWISE FLAT FLOORS | KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING ROBOT PICKING ACTIVITY IN A WAREHOUSE ENVIRONMENT | ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING ROBOT PICKING ACTIVITY IN A WAREHOUSE ENVIRONMENT | ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | — |
| 18919247 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS FOR IN-TRAILER UNLOADING | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — |
| 18919240 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS FOR LAST ROWS IN-TRAILER LOADING | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING ROBOT PICKING ACTIVITY IN A WAREHOUSE ENVIRONMENT | ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18919247 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS FOR IN-TRAILER UNLOADING | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18919034 | MODEL-BASED AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS ON PIECEWISE FLAT FLOORS | KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V | 3664 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18919240 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT OPERATIONS FOR LAST ROWS IN-TRAILER LOADING | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
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