Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plus One Robotics Inc. is actively prosecuting a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently faces 4 pending office actions, which are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. This indicates a high level of individual scrutiny for each application, as the pending actions are handled by different individuals. Such a spread requires the company to manage these separate examiner relationships simultaneously, each with its own potential for different technical interpretations and procedural hurdles.
Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all active prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's filings are technically similar enough to fall under the same specialized group at the USPTO, allowing for some consistency in the technical background required for the cases. KIM, SANG K is listed as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution of 4 pending office actions across 1 distinct art unit but 4 distinct examiners implies a need for a robust prosecution strategy that addresses the varying procedural expectations of the different examiners while maintaining technical consistency across the portfolio.
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%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 1 | 86.9% | +8.5% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.8% | +8.2% |
| LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | 1 | 85.0% | +7.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656172 | MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC PICKING AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | — |
| 18656410 | ROBOTIC PICKING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | KIM, SANG K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402653 | AUTOMATED MULTI-ARM ROBOTIC SYSTEM | RUSHIN, LESTER III | — |
| 18384845 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HORIZONTAL UNLOADING WITH AUTOMATED ARTICULATED ARM, MULTI-ARRAY GRIPPING, AND COMPUTER VISION BASED CONTROL | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656410 | ROBOTIC PICKING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | KIM, SANG K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656172 | MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC PICKING AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18656410 | ROBOTIC PICKING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | KIM, SANG K | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18402653 | AUTOMATED MULTI-ARM ROBOTIC SYSTEM | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18384845 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HORIZONTAL UNLOADING WITH AUTOMATED ARTICULATED ARM, MULTI-ARRAY GRIPPING, AND COMPUTER VISION BASED CONTROL | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2023 |
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