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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nimble Robotics, Inc. is prosecuting matters in the Transportation, E-Commerce and Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio contains 3 pending office actions distributed across 3 distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners suggests that the company is engaging with different perspectives at the USPTO simultaneously. The distribution across 3 distinct examiners means that the prosecution is handled by different individuals.
Prosecution is currently spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating technical breadth within the mechanical systems field. The busiest examiner, DIAZ, THOMAS C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since no single examiner holds a majority of the workload, the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the tendencies of any one individual. This distribution across multiple examiners and art units requires a coordinated approach to maintain consistency in claim scope and arguments across the 3 pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units further suggests that the technology may bridge different classification categories within the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAZ, THOMAS C | 1 | 68.5% | +19.0% |
| CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 1 | 86.9% | +8.5% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.4% |
| HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 1 | 31.7% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18222722 | Storage Systems and Methods for Robotic Picking | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 36d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039550 | MOBILE ROBOT AND ROBOTIC FARMING SYSTEM | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 35d overdue |
| 18206234 | Robot Having Interchangeable Batteries | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 8d overdue |
| 18853857 | PILLAR FOR GRID-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING CONSTRAINING FEATURES | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039550 | MOBILE ROBOT AND ROBOTIC FARMING SYSTEM | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 35d overdue |
| 18206234 | Robot Having Interchangeable Batteries | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 8d overdue |
| 18853857 | PILLAR FOR GRID-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING CONSTRAINING FEATURES | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853857 | PILLAR FOR GRID-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING CONSTRAINING FEATURES | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18222722 | Storage Systems and Methods for Robotic Picking | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18206234 | Robot Having Interchangeable Batteries | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18039550 | MOBILE ROBOT AND ROBOTIC FARMING SYSTEM | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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