Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. has 15 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 15 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion across several technical groups.

MIRZA, ADNAN M is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger listed assignment, so counsel should emphasize centralized docket control and matter-specific responses across the ten art units.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (36%)
7
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (50%)
§112 only2 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (36%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
29% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
64% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MIRZA, ADNAN M 1 84.6% +9.7%
CULLEN, TANNER L 1 72.3% +16.3%
ELARABI, TAREK A 1 69.2% +37.8%
COBB, MATTHEW 1 72.9% +35.2%
TORRES, ALICIA M 1 73.7% +17.3%
HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL 1 68.0% +43.4%
CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. 1 67.8% +14.4%
HENSON, KATINA N 1 56.8% +31.5%
WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE 1 81.9% +23.2%
WALSH, DANIEL I 1 64.4% +12.4%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18443910 LAWN MOWER WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE 46d
19253387 METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A WORKING BOUNDARY OF AN OPERATING EQUIPMENT MIRZA, ADNAN M —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19047447 AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CULLEN, TANNER L —
18917922 AUTONOMOUS WORKING ROBOT AND SYSTEM ELARABI, TAREK A —
18818350 Autonomous Lawn Mower with Edger and Control Method Thereof TORRES, ALICIA M —
18600522 CLEANING SYSTEM AND BASE STATION CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. —
17598669 GARDEN BLOWER RIVERA, CARLOS A —

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18589046 CLEANING ROBOT HENSON, KATINA N 22d
18443910 LAWN MOWER WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE 46d
19047447 AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CULLEN, TANNER L —
18917922 AUTONOMOUS WORKING ROBOT AND SYSTEM ELARABI, TAREK A —
18914960 Autonomous Lawn Mower COBB, MATTHEW —
18818350 Autonomous Lawn Mower with Edger and Control Method Thereof TORRES, ALICIA M —
18648177 CLEARING DEVICE, BASE STATION, CLEANING DEVICE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CLEARING ROLLING BRUSH ASSEMBLY HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL —
18600522 CLEANING SYSTEM AND BASE STATION CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3723 3
3661 2
3671 2
3667 1
3656 1
1714 1
1735 1
1751 1
1711 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19253387 METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A WORKING BOUNDARY OF AN OPERATING EQUIPMENT MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2025
19047447 AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CULLEN, TANNER L 3656 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 06, 2025
18917922 AUTONOMOUS WORKING ROBOT AND SYSTEM ELARABI, TAREK A 3661 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 16, 2024
18914960 Autonomous Lawn Mower COBB, MATTHEW 3661 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2024
18818350 Autonomous Lawn Mower with Edger and Control Method Thereof TORRES, ALICIA M 3671 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2024
18648177 CLEARING DEVICE, BASE STATION, CLEANING DEVICE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CLEARING ROLLING BRUSH ASSEMBLY HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL 3723 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18600522 CLEANING SYSTEM AND BASE STATION CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. 1714 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 08, 2024
18589046 CLEANING ROBOT HENSON, KATINA N 3723 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18443910 LAWN MOWER WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE 3671 §112 Final Rejection 46d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18242304 DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND EXTERNAL DEVICE WALSH, DANIEL I — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 05, 2023
18092122 BATTERY PACK, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR KERNS, KEVIN P 1735 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 30, 2022
17678509 BATTERY PACK ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1751 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2022
17598669 GARDEN BLOWER RIVERA, CARLOS A 3723 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 27, 2021
16972433 CLEANING ROBOT, CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, AND CLEANING ROBOT SYSTEM BARR, MICHAEL E 1711 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 04, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. have?

Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 14 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. applications?

Adnan M Mirza has the most, with 1 of Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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