Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Path Robotics Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's pending matters are not confined to a single examiner. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated against different sets of prior art or technical standards.
STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM is the busiest examiner, handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These actions are part of the total 4 pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. Managing 4 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires the company to address the specific requirements of multiple examination groups. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate a variety of individual examination styles.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 2 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
| LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 1 | 79.2% | +9.2% |
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.1% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18419428 | SCAN PLANNING AND SCAN OPERATIONS FOR WELDING AN OBJECT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252489 | MACHINE LEARNING LOGIC-BASED ADJUSTMENT TECHNIQUES FOR ROBOTS | LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 18747432 | TOOL CALIBRATION FOR MANUFACTURING ROBOTS | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18419428 | SCAN PLANNING AND SCAN OPERATIONS FOR WELDING AN OBJECT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18179796 | TOOL CALIBRATION FOR MANUFACTURING ROBOTS | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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