Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
20 pending office actions • 10 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 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. 20 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 only | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 13 (65%) |
| §102 only | 4 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3 | 86.7% | +10.9% |
| ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 1 | 78.5% | +7.6% |
| O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 1 | 60.0% | +66.7% |
| MYERS, GLENN F | 1 | 77.3% | +19.4% |
| WALSH, EMMETT K | 1 | 53.1% | +20.3% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.0% | +30.9% |
| SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 1 | 68.8% | +31.7% |
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 19.6% | +9.1% |
| HOLMES, JUSTIN | 1 | 89.2% | +9.6% |
| TAN, OLIVER E | 1 | 75.2% | +9.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247295 | CONTAINER STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | HOLMES, JUSTIN | 112d overdue |
| 18565859 | A Storage and Retrieval System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 30d overdue |
| 18578775 | PICKING STATION | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 9d |
| 18555017 | An Automated Load Handling System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 13d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555013 | A SYSTEM AND A TRANSPORT DEVICE THEREFOR | VETTER, DANIEL | 72d overdue |
| 17640560 | System And Method For Controlling The Movement Of Items | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 28d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848839 | CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR FOR PACKING AN OBJECT | O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 79d overdue |
| 18565859 | A Storage and Retrieval System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 30d overdue |
| 18561019 | MECHANICAL HANDLING APPARATUS | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 16d overdue |
| 18578775 | PICKING STATION | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 9d |
| 18555017 | An Automated Load Handling System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 13d |
| 18686930 | A CAM MECHANISM FOR A DIRECTION-CHANGE ASSEMBLY OF A LOAD HANDLING DEVICE, AND RELATED METHODS AND USES | MYERS, GLENN F | 20d |
| 18579908 | MECHANICAL HANDLING APPARATUS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 70d |
| 18580039 | A Grid Framework Structure | WALSH, EMMETT K | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 6 |
| 3655 | 4 |
| 3628 | 2 |
| 3653 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19242984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING BELT SLIPPAGE | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 3652 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 18848839 | CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR FOR PACKING AN OBJECT | O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18686930 | A CAM MECHANISM FOR A DIRECTION-CHANGE ASSEMBLY OF A LOAD HANDLING DEVICE, AND RELATED METHODS AND USES | MYERS, GLENN F | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18580039 | A Grid Framework Structure | WALSH, EMMETT K | 3628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18579908 | MECHANICAL HANDLING APPARATUS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18578775 | PICKING STATION | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18565859 | A Storage and Retrieval System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3652 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18561019 | MECHANICAL HANDLING APPARATUS | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 3652 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18555017 | An Automated Load Handling System | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18555013 | A SYSTEM AND A TRANSPORT DEVICE THEREFOR | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18247295 | CONTAINER STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | HOLMES, JUSTIN | 3655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18179033 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18042908 | TROUGH MANIPULATOR AND METHOD FOR LIFTING OBJECTS AND TROUGH | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18042884 | Transporting Device and Storage System | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18068913 | MODULATION UNIT FOR AN ENCODER | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18000175 | LOAD-HANDLING DEVICE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17920925 | ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR A LOAD HANDLING DEVICE | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17909088 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §112 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17908774 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 157d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17640560 | System And Method For Controlling The Movement Of Items | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
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