Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
HL Robotics Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, but they are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are all operating under the same technical and administrative leadership within that single unit. This structure suggests a high level of technical focus for the company's current robotics portfolio.
DIAZ, THOMAS C is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The concentration of the 5 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's robotics technology is being evaluated against a consistent set of internal standards. This allows the applicant to monitor how the art unit handles similar mechanical claims across the 5 distinct examiners involved. Practitioners can leverage this centralized oversight to identify potential trends in the unit's approach to prior art and claim construction. By addressing the feedback from multiple examiners within the same unit, the company can develop a unified prosecution strategy that accounts for the shared technical expertise of the 1 distinct art unit overseeing all pending matters. This arrangement often leads to more predictable outcomes across the portfolio.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAZ, THOMAS C | 1 | 68.5% | +19.0% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 1 | 85.8% | +12.7% |
| HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 1 | 76.4% | +23.7% |
| HAGEMAN, MARK C | 1 | 73.9% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18829287 | DRIVING MODULE AND MOBILE ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204540 | VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT AND VEHICLE PARKING METHOD | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 22d |
| 19009776 | VALET PARKING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VALET PARKING AND PICKUP OF VEHICLE | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| 18785294 | LIFT DEVICE AND VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204540 | VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT AND VEHICLE PARKING METHOD | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 22d |
| 19009776 | VALET PARKING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VALET PARKING AND PICKUP OF VEHICLE | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| 18972565 | PARKING ROBOT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18829287 | DRIVING MODULE AND MOBILE ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | — |
| 18785294 | LIFT DEVICE AND VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009776 | VALET PARKING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VALET PARKING AND PICKUP OF VEHICLE | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18972565 | PARKING ROBOT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18829287 | DRIVING MODULE AND MOBILE ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18785294 | LIFT DEVICE AND VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18204540 | VEHICLE PARKING ROBOT AND VEHICLE PARKING METHOD | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
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