Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. is managing 16 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 15 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 11 distinct art units, showing technical diversity in the company's pending applications. This distribution across 11 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being reviewed by a wide range of specialized patent office groups.
WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE is the busiest examiner, with 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These actions are a portion of the 16 pending office actions total. The other actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. The fact that 16 pending office actions are spread across 11 distinct art units suggests the company must navigate a variety of examination styles. With 15 distinct examiners involved, the company faces variability in how its actions are processed.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| §112 only | 3 (23%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 2 | 82.1% | +23.1% |
| MIRZA, ADNAN M | 1 | 84.6% | +9.6% |
| CULLEN, TANNER L | 1 | 71.8% | +16.2% |
| VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 1 | 73.5% | +20.6% |
| COBB, MATTHEW | 1 | 72.9% | +35.2% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.5% | +17.5% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 67.5% | +44.3% |
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.9% | +21.4% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 79.0% | +21.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369572 | MOVING DEVICE | KOTTER, KIP T | 7d |
| 18427536 | AUTOMATIC LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 21d |
| 19047447 | AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
| 18818350 | Autonomous Lawn Mower with Edger and Control Method Thereof | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
| 18600522 | CLEANING SYSTEM AND BASE STATION | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369572 | MOVING DEVICE | KOTTER, KIP T | 7d |
| 18427536 | AUTOMATIC LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 21d |
| 18443910 | LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 46d |
| 19047447 | AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
| 19030492 | AUTONOMOUS WORKING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253387 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A WORKING BOUNDARY OF AN OPERATING EQUIPMENT | MIRZA, ADNAN M | — | §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 |
| 19030492 | AUTONOMOUS WORKING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 3666 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18914960 | Autonomous Lawn Mower | COBB, MATTHEW | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18818350 | Autonomous Lawn Mower with Edger and Control Method Thereof | TORRES, ALICIA M | — | §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 |
| 18443910 | LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 3671 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18427536 | AUTOMATIC LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 3671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18369572 | MOVING DEVICE | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Sep 18, 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 |
| 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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