Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Honeybee Robotics LLC currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a level of technological variety in their current prosecution pipeline. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that each pending action is likely being handled by a different individual.
BENJAMIN F FIORELLO is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are currently responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a concentrated portion of the company's active cases. Practitioners should prepare for diverse perspectives given that the pending actions are under the purview of different examiners. The presence of 3 art units suggests that while some technical overlap may exist, the procedural experience will likely vary 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.4% |
| TRAN, BINH Q | 1 | 88.1% | +6.6% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 1 | 81.9% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 3 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 |
| 19185084 | SYSTEM FOR IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — |
| 19093929 | SOLENOID LAUNCH LOCK FOR A THRUST VECTOR CONTROL ACTUATOR | TRAN, BINH Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961722 | BI-DIRECTIONAL ROBOTIC CRAWLER FOR TRANSPORTING A SENSOR SYSTEM ABOUT A STRUCTURE | FIX, THOMAS S | 77d |
| 18937541 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185084 | SYSTEM FOR IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19093929 | SOLENOID LAUNCH LOCK FOR A THRUST VECTOR CONTROL ACTUATOR | TRAN, BINH Q | 3675 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 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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