Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc.

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

58 pending office actions • 29 art units • 54 examiners • 1 of 58 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready • 147 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

58
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
26
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

37
Hard (64%)
19
Medium (33%)
2
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (9%)
§101 + other22 (38%)
§103 only17 (29%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
27
Information Tech
47% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
19% of docket
19
Business / Other
33% 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.

580 h
Manual time on pending OAs
116 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
203 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2 80.9% +16.6%
NORTON, JENNIFER L 2 49.8% +2.5%
WORKU, KIDEST 2 84.9% +2.8%
DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 2 50.0% +75.0%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.5% +13.8%
ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM 1 14.3% +0.0%
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.7% +14.0%
ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 1 76.7% +10.9%
ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R 1 82.8% +20.8%
OGG, DAVID EARL 1 83.7% +11.4%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18460295 EDGE DEVICE SUPPORT OF COMPUTATION OF CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WORKU, KIDEST 24d overdue
19235247 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R —
19044100 MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS SINGH, KAVEL —
18952567 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR —
18913809 AUTOMATION OBJECTS FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R —

Hard Cases (37)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17661408 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PREDICTIONS WITH SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED DATA IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 134d overdue
17901828 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MODELING CAPABILITIES WITHIN SYSTEM MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS COTHRAN, BERNARD E 45d overdue
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 8d overdue
18060077 SMART OBJECT CONTROLLER ALLOCATION IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT SAXENA, AKASH 21d
18787157 MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION BOND, REED MADISON 28d
18661811 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES JARRETT, SCOTT L 41d
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 49d
18755323 INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 63d

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
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 49d
19235247 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R —
19044100 MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS SINGH, KAVEL —
19009791 COLLABORATION TOOLS ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R —
18952567 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR —
18913809 AUTOMATION OBJECTS FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R —
18899922 UNPOWERED AUTOMATION DEVICE TROUBLESHOOTING USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION OGG, DAVID EARL —
18607750 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INDUSTRIAL SMART CODE CREATION DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2119 4
3624 3
2199 3
2191 2
3697 2
3625 2
4100 2
2188 2
3651 1
2138 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19235247 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2025
19175957 CONTROLFLASH PLUS HARDWARE SERIALIZATION AND REGISTRATION ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 10, 2025
19044100 MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS SINGH, KAVEL 3651 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 03, 2025
19009791 COLLABORATION TOOLS ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
18952567 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 19, 2024
18913809 AUTOMATION OBJECTS FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2024
18899922 UNPOWERED AUTOMATION DEVICE TROUBLESHOOTING USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION OGG, DAVID EARL — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18897845 INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PROCESS ISSUES PATEL, CHANDNI — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18897767 INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND PROCESS MONITORING NORTON, JENNIFER L — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18897807 INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR PROCESS AND COMPONENT SAFETY NORTON, JENNIFER L — §101§102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18896183 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATIONAL MONITORING OF INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE YU, JAE UN 2138 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2024
18894798 DYNAMIC INTERFACING BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICES AZAD, MD ABUL K 2119 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18824647 GENERATIVE AI FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 3697 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 2024
18811443 CONTEXTUAL BASED ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATION WORK ORDER SCHEDULING KONERU, SUJAY 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18787157 MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION BOND, REED MADISON 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18755323 INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §101 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18679113 Industrial Batch Processing Dynamic User Interface RAMIREZ, ELLIS B — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18679130 Industrial Batch Processing Operation Control for Use with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18670166 INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS BASED ON PART AVAILABILITY SHECHTMAN, SEAN P — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending May 21, 2024
18670196 INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS BASED ON RESET OPERATIONS PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 21, 2024
18666226 MULTI-TENANT MANUFACTURING CLOUD SYSTEM WORKU, KIDEST — §101§103DP Final Rejection — Pending May 16, 2024
18661811 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending May 13, 2024
18652571 AUTOMATED ANOMALY DETECTION AND RESOLUTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM MERCADO VARGAS, ARIEL 4100 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2024
18645628 GENERATIVE AI CUSTOMER SUPPORT ACCELERATOR HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES — §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18635300 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MAINTAINING INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE TWINS KLICOS, NICHOLAS GEORGE 2118 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 15, 2024
18622082 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CODE BLOCK SELECTOR AND CODEBASE UPDATING SYSTEM AGRAWAL, SHISHIR 2115 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2024
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103§112 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18610444 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18607750 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INDUSTRIAL SMART CODE CREATION DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 2199 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 18, 2024
18597268 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DERIVING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM PROGRAM CODE NGUYEN, MONGBAO 2192 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18590614 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN AND CONTROLLING AN INDUSTRIAL DEVICE USING AN EDGE DEVICE VOGEL, JAY L. 2478 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18588518 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ETHERNET NETWORK DEVICE EMULATOR CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA 2444 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18538811 MODELING WIRING ARRANGEMENTS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT FABER, DAVID 2172 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 13, 2023
18500448 PREDICTIVE HUMAN RESPONSE TERMINAL IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM RIEGLER, PATRICK F 2171 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 02, 2023
18373752 ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL PLATFORM WITH EXTENSIBLE DATA MODEL LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2119 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2023
18373146 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS OBAID, HAMZEH M 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2023
18460295 EDGE DEVICE SUPPORT OF COMPUTATION OF CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WORKU, KIDEST 2119 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18363186 INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFIGURATION PARSING TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 01, 2023
18227562 DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS WITH ACCESS TO CONTROL PLANE USING EDGE COMPUTE MODULES AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2196 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2023
18357311 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION TOKENING RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE 3697 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2023
18216938 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING VARIABLE CYCLE TIMES FOR OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS ANALYTICS FOR INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS LINDSAY, BERNARD G 2119 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 2023
18343481 PROMPT ENGINEERING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM DESIGN NG, JONATHAN K — §101Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2023
18322268 TOKENIZED INDUSTRIAL DATA FUNCTION SERVICE THAT INCLUDES SPECIFIED DATA FUNCTION SERVICE HTAY, LIN LIN M 2153 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 23, 2023
18322311 SPHERICAL BIT AND FASTENER DESIGN SCRUGGS, ROBERT J 3723 §103§112 Final Rejection 83d Pending May 23, 2023
18322162 CLOUD MES WITH EDGE CONTAINERIZED SERVICE SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C 3629 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 23, 2023
18316290 MOBILE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM EMBEDDED CONTENT UNLOCKING AND NEW CONTENT INSTALLATION WHEATON, BRADFORD F 2193 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 12, 2023
18195216 CROWDSOURCING ENGINEERING DESIGNS FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL PRODUCTS DEBNATH, NUPUR — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2023
18299655 TRANSFORMER FAULT DETECTION NGHIEM, MICHAEL P 2857 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2023
18176033 INDUSTRIAL ASSET MODEL ROLLBACK PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 4100 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2023
18060077 SMART OBJECT CONTROLLER ALLOCATION IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 21d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17955529 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REMOTELY CONTROLLING CHANNEL RESETS FOR INPUT/OUTPUT MODULES OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS KHUU, HIEN DIEU THI 2116 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17945740 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING MACHINE-READABLE INDICIA FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION COMPONENTS WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS 2408 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 15, 2022
17901828 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MODELING CAPABILITIES WITHIN SYSTEM MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §101§102 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17852017 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DEPLOYING SECURITY UPDATES IN AN OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY NETWORK MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN 2496 §103 Final Rejection — AI Ready Jun 28, 2022
17839004 HARDWARE RELIABILITY MONITORING AND PREDICTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN 2117 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 13, 2022
17830648 DEVICE DISCOVERY WITH DATA MODELING AND DATA EGRESS DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 2199 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 02, 2022
17661408 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PREDICTIONS WITH SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED DATA IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 §101§102§103 Final Rejection 134d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022

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