Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kuka Aktiengesellschaft maintains 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined administrative structure for the company's current filings. This focus within the identified art unit indicates that the company's current innovation is being evaluated against a consistent set of prior art and examination standards.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is EVANS, KARSTON G, who manages 1 pending office action. This examiner currently oversees all pending prosecution for the company's patent portfolio. As the only official reviewing the company's work, the examination style and preferences of EVANS, KARSTON G will be the primary factor in the prosecution's progress.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests that the company's current prosecution phase is relatively quiet. While this reduces the immediate burden on the company's intellectual property budget, it also means that the company's future patent position in the mechanical systems space is currently tied to the outcome of this specific matter. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific feedback provided by this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANS, KARSTON G | 1 | 69.4% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557717 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT A ROBOT APPLICATION | EVANS, KARSTON G | 225d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557717 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT A ROBOT APPLICATION | EVANS, KARSTON G | 225d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18557717 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT A ROBOT APPLICATION | EVANS, KARSTON G | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 225d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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