Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 4 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kuka Deutschland GmbH currently manages 12 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across 12 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where no single examiner holds a majority of the open matters. The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical innovations require navigation through several different specialized groups at the patent office.
EVANS, KARSTON G is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution highlights a lack of examiner concentration across the pending matters. Practitioners should prepare for diverse stylistic preferences across the various officials rather than focusing on a specific individual's historical trends. The presence of 4 distinct art units further underscores the need for a versatile legal strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (42%) |
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (33%) |
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% |
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
| RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 1 | 81.1% | +14.9% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 1 | 56.3% | +62.5% |
| SINGH, ESVINDER | 1 | 77.4% | +22.7% |
| CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 74.8% | +20.3% |
| RAMIREZ BRAVO, BEATRIZ A | 1 | 64.0% | +28.9% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 76.0% | +2.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860899 | Gripper for Handling SMD Component Reel Cassettes, and Associated SMD Component Reel Cassette | KIM, SANG K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262055 | PLANNING A PATH OF A DRIVERLESS MOBILE ROBOT | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 31d overdue |
| 18556755 | GENERATING A ROBOT PROGRAM AND OPERATING A ROBOT | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 9d overdue |
| 18558440 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A TELEROBOTIC ROBOT | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 27d |
| 19261125 | Robot Path Planning | EVANS, KARSTON G | — |
| 18876068 | ROBOT ARM CALIBRATION | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | — |
| 18875425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A ROBOT | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
| 18860891 | Method for Automatic Reloading of SMD Component Reels on SMD Assembly Machines | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | — |
| 18719655 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNNG AN EMERGENCY-STOP FUNCTIONALITY, AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19261125 | Robot Path Planning | EVANS, KARSTON G | — |
| 18875425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A ROBOT | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
| 18860899 | Gripper for Handling SMD Component Reel Cassettes, and Associated SMD Component Reel Cassette | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18848968 | Robot Add-On Part, Control Device, Robot, and Associated Method | O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | — |
| 18710460 | METHOD, LASER-OPTICAL DETECTION SYSEM AND ROBOTIC WORKSTATION | SINGH, ESVINDER | — |
| 18719655 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNNG AN EMERGENCY-STOP FUNCTIONALITY, AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18683017 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING OPERATION OF A ROBOT | RAMIREZ BRAVO, BEATRIZ A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 4 |
| 3658 | 3 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19261125 | Robot Path Planning | EVANS, KARSTON G | 3657 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 18876068 | ROBOT ARM CALIBRATION | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18875425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A ROBOT | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18860891 | Method for Automatic Reloading of SMD Component Reels on SMD Assembly Machines | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860899 | Gripper for Handling SMD Component Reel Cassettes, and Associated SMD Component Reel Cassette | KIM, SANG K | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18848968 | Robot Add-On Part, Control Device, Robot, and Associated Method | O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18710460 | METHOD, LASER-OPTICAL DETECTION SYSEM AND ROBOTIC WORKSTATION | SINGH, ESVINDER | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18719655 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNNG AN EMERGENCY-STOP FUNCTIONALITY, AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18683017 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING OPERATION OF A ROBOT | RAMIREZ BRAVO, BEATRIZ A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18556755 | GENERATING A ROBOT PROGRAM AND OPERATING A ROBOT | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18558440 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A TELEROBOTIC ROBOT | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18262055 | PLANNING A PATH OF A DRIVERLESS MOBILE ROBOT | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 3667 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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