Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Honeybee Robotics LLC has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, producing a fully dispersed examination profile.
CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner or art unit carries multiple identified matters. The practical focus is application-specific response preparation, supported by consistent treatment of related robotics and mechanical claim concepts across the separate prosecution records.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| KENNY, DANIEL J | 1 | 61.8% | +21.6% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.0% | +16.5% |
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 1 | 81.8% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937541 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961722 | BI-DIRECTIONAL ROBOTIC CRAWLER FOR TRANSPORTING A SENSOR SYSTEM ABOUT A STRUCTURE | FIX, THOMAS S | 77d |
| 19367242 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
| 19185084 | SYSTEM FOR IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — |
| 19092767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYABLE LINEAR STRUCTURES WITH RIVETS | KENNY, DANIEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961722 | BI-DIRECTIONAL ROBOTIC CRAWLER FOR TRANSPORTING A SENSOR SYSTEM ABOUT A STRUCTURE | FIX, THOMAS S | 77d |
| 19367242 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
| 19092767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYABLE LINEAR STRUCTURES WITH RIVETS | KENNY, DANIEL J | — |
| 18937541 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19367242 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19185084 | SYSTEM FOR IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19092767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYABLE LINEAR STRUCTURES WITH RIVETS | KENNY, DANIEL J | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18961722 | BI-DIRECTIONAL ROBOTIC CRAWLER FOR TRANSPORTING A SENSOR SYSTEM ABOUT A STRUCTURE | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18937541 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHoneybee Robotics LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Stephen J Castellano has the most, with 1 of Honeybee Robotics LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
