Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc.

54 pending office actions • 34 art units • 47 examiners • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 147 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

54
Total Pending OAs
47
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 52 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

22
Overdue
2
Due this week
16
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 52 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (22)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (3)

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.

7
Hard (13%)
44
Medium (81%)
2
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only7 (13%)
§103 only41 (76%)
§102 only3 (6%)
§112 only2 (4%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
35
Information Tech
65% of docket
3
Communications
6% of docket
3
Semiconductors
6% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
24% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

540 h
Manual time on pending OAs
108 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
189 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 3 80.8% +17.2%
POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 3 76.5% +32.1%
NGUYEN, MONGBAO 2 85.6% +43.3%
WANG, ZHIPENG 2 80.7% +22.9%
WORKU, KIDEST 2 84.8% +2.7%
THAI, HANH B 1 87.1% +2.6%
ULLAH, ARIF 1 46.9% +37.3%
BOND, REED MADISON 1 5.0% +25.0%
SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 1 28.5% +21.9%
SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 1 28.7% +40.9%

Quick Wins (9)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 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
18597268 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DERIVING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM PROGRAM CODE NGUYEN, MONGBAO 8d overdue
18368426 IMPLEMENTING CONTAINER-BASED HOSTED VISUALIZATION USING THIN CLIENTS WORKU, KIDEST 4d overdue
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 7d
18437941 PLC PROGRAM GENERATOR/COPILOT USING GENERATIVE AI SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 13d
18527733 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DISTRIBUTED PROJECT CONTROL WITH MILESTONE ROLLBACK WANG, ZHIPENG 21d
18460324 HUMAN INTERFACE MODULE (HIM) CONNECTIVITY AND INTERFACE FOR CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WANG, ZHIPENG 21d
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 49d

Hard Cases (10)

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
19009717 INDUSTRIAL DATA SERVICES PLATFORM THAI, HANH B 31d overdue
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 8d overdue
18373133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3d overdue
18590592 AUTOMATED SYSTEM TO CREATE "CHANGE HISTORY" AND/OR " COMMIT-MESSAGE" IN RESPONSE TO USER EDITS RIVERA, ANIBAL 14d
18986239 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION PROJECT ACCELERATION ULLAH, ARIF 26d
18787157 MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION BOND, REED MADISON 28d
18661811 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES JARRETT, SCOTT L 41d
18373136 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 48d

Interview Candidates (14)

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
18503913 INTEGRATED GENERATIVE AI FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYTICS USING HMI ASSISTANCE POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 17d overdue
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 8d overdue
18597268 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DERIVING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM PROGRAM CODE NGUYEN, MONGBAO 8d overdue
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 7d
18437941 PLC PROGRAM GENERATOR/COPILOT USING GENERATIVE AI SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 13d
18527733 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DISTRIBUTED PROJECT CONTROL WITH MILESTONE ROLLBACK WANG, ZHIPENG 21d
18460324 HUMAN INTERFACE MODULE (HIM) CONNECTIVITY AND INTERFACE FOR CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WANG, ZHIPENG 21d
18986239 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION PROJECT ACCELERATION ULLAH, ARIF 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2115 6
2119 4
2116 4
3625 3
2191 3
2192 3
2617 2
3623 2
2188 2
2163 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19009717 INDUSTRIAL DATA SERVICES PLATFORM THAI, HANH B 2163 §101 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2025
18986239 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION PROJECT ACCELERATION ULLAH, ARIF 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18787157 MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION BOND, REED MADISON 3624 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18755323 INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18661811 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 13, 2024
18646534 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE INTERFACE LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISTEFANO, GREGORY A 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18617291 Real-Time Path Planning and Traffic Management for an Independent Cart System GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW 3664 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18614956 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI PROMPT WORKFLOW NGUYEN, MONGBAO 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18610444 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18597268 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DERIVING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM PROGRAM CODE NGUYEN, MONGBAO 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18590592 AUTOMATED SYSTEM TO CREATE "CHANGE HISTORY" AND/OR " COMMIT-MESSAGE" IN RESPONSE TO USER EDITS RIVERA, ANIBAL 2192 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18590677 PRESCRIPTIVE MAINTENANCE WORK ORDER GENERATION NGUYEN, TAN D 3629 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 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 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18588518 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ETHERNET NETWORK DEVICE EMULATOR CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18437941 PLC PROGRAM GENERATOR/COPILOT USING GENERATIVE AI SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18407137 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH BASED ON INDUSTRIAL DATA NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18396500 RENDERING AS A SERVICE PLATFORM WITH MANUFACTURING DIGITAL TWIN PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 26, 2023
18396530 RENDERING AS A SERVICE PLATFORM WITH VISUAL MEDIA POSITIONING AND DEFINITION FOR INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MA, MICHELLE HAU 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18531324 Systems and Methods for a Cable Connector JIMENEZ, OSCAR C 2896 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18527733 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DISTRIBUTED PROJECT CONTROL WITH MILESTONE ROLLBACK WANG, ZHIPENG 2115 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18511554 SYSTEM AND METHODS THAT FACILITATE ADD-ON FUNCTIONS WITH INDUSTRIAL DEVICES KABIR, SAAD M 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18503898 ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS ANALYTICS PAN, YUHUI R 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18503913 INTEGRATED GENERATIVE AI FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYTICS USING HMI ASSISTANCE POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18497711 DISTRIBUTING UPDATED CONFIGURATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL DEVICES SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18497719 FLEET DEPLOYMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS USING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 2459 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18373133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18373136 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18473839 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE HENNING, MATTHEW T 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18368426 IMPLEMENTING CONTAINER-BASED HOSTED VISUALIZATION USING THIN CLIENTS WORKU, KIDEST 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18460295 EDGE DEVICE SUPPORT OF COMPUTATION OF CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WORKU, KIDEST 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18460234 MOBILE APPLICATION AND USER-EXPERIENCE WITH CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICES FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18460324 HUMAN INTERFACE MODULE (HIM) CONNECTIVITY AND INTERFACE FOR CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT WANG, ZHIPENG 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18457466 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATCH SYNCHRONIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL BATCH ANALYTICS POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §112 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18457478 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATCH SYNCHRONIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL BATCH ANALYTICS POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2023
18363138 INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM NODE NETWORK OPTIMIZATION SURYAWANSHI, SURESH 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18363154 INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA NAVIGATORS SHIH, HAOSHIAN 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18363177 INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL GRAPHS ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18227091 VIRTUALIZATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM ERDMAN, CHAD G 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18343374 PROMPT ENGINEERING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE CONFIGURATION DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E 2875 Other Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18204940 DOOR OR WALL PANEL MOUNT AND USB CONNECTION FOR HUMAN INTERFACE MODULE (HIM) FIGUEROA, FELIX O 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18322311 SPHERICAL BIT AND FASTENER DESIGN SCRUGGS, ROBERT J 3723 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending May 23, 2023
18320261 INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CHAIN MODELING ADE, OGER GARCIA 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 19, 2023
18316290 MOBILE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM EMBEDDED CONTENT UNLOCKING AND NEW CONTENT INSTALLATION WHEATON, BRADFORD F 2193 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 12, 2023
18128127 VIRTUAL OBJECT INTERACTION IN AUGMENTED REALITY GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18150629 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT WITH CODE CONTENT OPTIMIZATION AND SERVICING WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18092745 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLICY UNDO IN OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEVICES SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2023
18060077 SMART OBJECT CONTROLLER ALLOCATION IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17901828 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MODELING CAPABILITIES WITHIN SYSTEM MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17661408 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PREDICTIONS WITH SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED DATA IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 §103 Final Rejection 134d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17568912 WAVEFORM RECONSTRUCTION IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 05, 2022

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