Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kuka Systems GmbH is managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a moderate level of technical diversity in the pending applications. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a portion of the workload. This distribution indicates that every pending office action is currently being reviewed by a unique examiner.
MOYER, DALE S is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. Because the 4 pending actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no examiner managing more than 1 action. This distribution across 3 art units requires the company to navigate different examiner perspectives simultaneously. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for 4 actions highlights a lack of examiner-specific concentration in the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANNAN, B M M | 1 | 82.2% | +18.0% |
| TRAN, KHOI H | 1 | 54.9% | +16.9% |
| MOYER, DALE S | 1 | 81.6% | +16.3% |
| CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 57.7% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846903 | Planning a Path of a Robot | TRAN, KHOI H | 16d overdue |
| 18846878 | Checking a Safety Configuration of a Robot | HANNAN, B M M | — |
| 18847023 | Checking a Predefined Path of a Robot | MOYER, DALE S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846903 | Planning a Path of a Robot | TRAN, KHOI H | 16d overdue |
| 18846878 | Checking a Safety Configuration of a Robot | HANNAN, B M M | — |
| 18847023 | Checking a Predefined Path of a Robot | MOYER, DALE S | — |
| 18847039 | Ascertaining at Least One Border for Operating a Robot | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 2 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846878 | Checking a Safety Configuration of a Robot | HANNAN, B M M | 3657 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18846903 | Planning a Path of a Robot | TRAN, KHOI H | 3656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18847023 | Checking a Predefined Path of a Robot | MOYER, DALE S | 3656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18847039 | Ascertaining at Least One Border for Operating a Robot | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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