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
Loop Robots has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE. The prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly concentrated examination environment for the company's current patent filings. This singular focus within one art unit suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation-related intellectual property is being evaluated against a specific set of technical standards.
The busiest examiner, TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE, is assigned 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the entire active portfolio at this stage is under the review of a single individual. This creates a direct and centralized point of contact for the company's prosecution efforts. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the current workload. This lack of examiner diversity means that the outcome of the company's pending matters is currently dependent on the interpretations of this one specific official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE | 1 | 51.4% | +6.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17988555 | MIXED MODE MOBILE SERVICE ROBOT WITH MANUAL AND AUTONOMOUS MANEUVERABILITY | TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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