Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reliable Robotics Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners and art units suggests that each pending matter is being treated as a unique technical and procedural entity within the patent office. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current filings cover different mechanical or transportation sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner, MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is divided equally between the 2 distinct examiners. This structure implies that the prosecution of the 2 actions will likely be influenced by the specific practices of two different art units and two different examiners. Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration means the outcome of one pending action is unlikely to provide a direct baseline for the other.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | 1 | 84.6% | +4.6% |
| YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 1 | 41.7% | +36.0% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740344 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODE RADAR OPERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369713 | VERIFYING FLIGHT SYSTEM CALIBRATION AND PERFORMING AUTOMATED NAVIGATION ACTIONS | YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740344 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODE RADAR OPERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18369713 | VERIFYING FLIGHT SYSTEM CALIBRATION AND PERFORMING AUTOMATED NAVIGATION ACTIONS | YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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