Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Locus Robotics Corp. is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but remain consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests that while the company is pursuing multiple applications, they are technically related enough to fall under the jurisdiction of a single art unit, which can lead to more consistent examination across the portfolio.
WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R serves as the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This represents a significant portion of the company's 3 pending office actions, suggesting that their current legal strategy is concentrated with this specific examiner. For the company, the outcomes of the 2 busiest examiner pending actions will heavily influence the overall success rate of their current applications. The presence of 2 distinct examiners across the 3 pending office actions indicates a relatively consolidated prosecution effort compared to portfolios with a one-to-one ratio of examiners to actions.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 2 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
| HOLMES, JUSTIN | 1 | 88.9% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972728 | PRE-QUEUEING OF ORDER TOTES | HOLMES, JUSTIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972706 | AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT WITH A TOTE MAGAZINE AND A TOTE ELEVATOR | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972728 | PRE-QUEUEING OF ORDER TOTES | HOLMES, JUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972744 | TOTE MANIPULATOR MECHANISM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18972706 | AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT WITH A TOTE MAGAZINE AND A TOTE ELEVATOR | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18972728 | PRE-QUEUEING OF ORDER TOTES | HOLMES, JUSTIN | 3655 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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