Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Persimmon Technologies Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which means the pending matters are being reviewed by different individuals. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which suggests a focused technical scope for these applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KC, SAGAR, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this individual handles a minority of the total workload, the prosecution burden is spread across the assigned personnel. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles across the 2 distinct art units involved, as no individual examiner dominates the total volume of cases.
The distribution of examiners across the technical groups implies that some officials may share the same departmental supervisors. This structure requires a legal strategy that accounts for individual preferences while remaining mindful of art unit-wide trends. Successfully navigating the applications will involve addressing the specific requirements of KC, SAGAR and the other assigned officials.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KC, SAGAR | 1 | 86.5% | +5.6% |
| LOWE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 66.8% | +19.9% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.6% | +30.5% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.0% | +19.3% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17221021 | Core-Shell Particles and Composite Material Synthesized Therefrom | CROWELL, ANNA M | 100d overdue |
| 18426659 | Material Handling Robot | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17221021 | Core-Shell Particles and Composite Material Synthesized Therefrom | CROWELL, ANNA M | 100d overdue |
| 18426659 | Material Handling Robot | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 29d |
| 17001884 | Robot Linear Drive Heat Transfer | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 2 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075995 | Material-Handling Robot With Magnetically Guided End-Effectors | KC, SAGAR | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18426659 | Material Handling Robot | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 17221021 | Core-Shell Particles and Composite Material Synthesized Therefrom | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
| 17001884 | Robot Linear Drive Heat Transfer | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2020 |
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