Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc.

49 pending office actions • 25 art units • 45 examiners • 1 of 49 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready • 146 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
23
Non-Final OAs
26
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (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.

23
Hard (47%)
25
Medium (51%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (8%)
§101 + other12 (24%)
§103 only23 (47%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
28
Information Tech
57% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
10
Business / Other
20% 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.

490 h
Manual time on pending OAs
98 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
172 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NORTON, JENNIFER L 2 49.8% +1.8%
LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2 66.7% +11.2%
SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2 80.9% +17.1%
DUNN, DARRIN D 2 75.2% +24.3%
ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM 1 16.7% +0.0%
AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 1 70.3% +14.0%
KASENGE, CHARLES R 1 84.3% +13.3%
AZAD, MD ABUL K 1 81.5% +20.9%
BOYCE, ANDRE D 1 36.0% +18.8%
KONERU, SUJAY 1 58.1% +37.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 49d
18897703 RULE-BASED EDGE DEVICE PROCESSING KASENGE, CHARLES R
18894798 DYNAMIC INTERFACING BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICES AZAD, MD ABUL K

Hard Cases (24)

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
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
18373133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3d overdue
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 7d
18661811 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES JARRETT, SCOTT L 41d
18322311 SPHERICAL BIT AND FASTENER DESIGN SCRUGGS, ROBERT J 83d
19175957 CONTROLFLASH PLUS HARDWARE SERIALIZATION AND REGISTRATION ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 7d
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 49d
19097569 DATA MODELS FOR DEFINING DATA TRANSMISSION WORKFLOW AND FACILITATING DATA COMMUNICATION AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD
18897703 RULE-BASED EDGE DEVICE PROCESSING KASENGE, CHARLES R
18894798 DYNAMIC INTERFACING BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICES AZAD, MD ABUL K
18811412 INVENTORY AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT BOYCE, ANDRE D
18811443 CONTEXTUAL BASED ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATION WORK ORDER SCHEDULING KONERU, SUJAY
18650436 WIRELESS INTERFACE FOR SINGLE PAIR ETHERNET NETWORK IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2119 6
2115 3
2117 3
2116 2
3623 2
3624 2
2118 2
3625 2
4100 2
2191 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19175957 CONTROLFLASH PLUS HARDWARE SERIALIZATION AND REGISTRATION ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2025
19097569 DATA MODELS FOR DEFINING DATA TRANSMISSION WORKFLOW AND FACILITATING DATA COMMUNICATION AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2025
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
18897703 RULE-BASED EDGE DEVICE PROCESSING KASENGE, CHARLES R 2116 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2024
18894798 DYNAMIC INTERFACING BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES AND INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICES AZAD, MD ABUL K 2119 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18811412 INVENTORY AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT BOYCE, ANDRE D 3623 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 21, 2024
18811443 CONTEXTUAL BASED ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATION WORK ORDER SCHEDULING KONERU, SUJAY 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18754729 COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18754682 COMMON CONFIGURATION VALIDATION IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI 2118 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18670196 INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS BASED ON RESET OPERATIONS PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2024
18666234 CONTEXTUAL BASED ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2024
18665728 MANUFACTURING CLOUD SYSTEM WITH END-USER EXTENSIBILITY KNIGHT, LETORIA G §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2024
18666066 CLOUD-BASED LINE MANAGEMENT TRACEABILITY KAKARLA, BHASKAR §101§103 Non-Final OA 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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 01, 2024
18650436 WIRELESS INTERFACE FOR SINGLE PAIR ETHERNET NETWORK IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2119 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18635308 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE TWIN DATA REPLICATION CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 2119 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2024
18635311 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE COMPUTE SURFACE SELECTION FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE TWINS CORTES, HOWARD 2118 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2024
18614966 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INPUT TOOLS SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18614925 INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103§112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Mar 25, 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 §101§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18596193 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS LE, JOHN H §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2024
18441859 CONTROL SYSTEM WITH TRIPLE MODULAR REDUNDANCY USING SEPARATE CONTROLLERS WANG, ZHIPENG 2115 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
18419731 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE COMPUTING AND CONNECTIVITY VIA HUMAN INTERFACE MODULE CAI, CHARLES J 2115 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2024
18511554 SYSTEM AND METHODS THAT FACILITATE ADD-ON FUNCTIONS WITH INDUSTRIAL DEVICES KABIR, SAAD M 2119 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18503913 INTEGRATED GENERATIVE AI FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYTICS USING HMI ASSISTANCE POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18373752 ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL PLATFORM WITH EXTENSIBLE DATA MODEL LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2119 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18373714 BATCH PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND CONTROL PLATFORM WITH EXTENSIBLE DATA MODEL DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18373146 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS OBAID, HAMZEH M 3624 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 26, 2023
18373133 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18473669 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAMPER DETECTION ANDREWS, BRENT J 2858 §112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 25, 2023
18467565 MODULAR SOLID-STATE POWER MONITOR AND PROTECTION SYSTEM DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 14, 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 §103 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 Final Rejection Pending Jul 28, 2023
18322311 SPHERICAL BIT AND FASTENER DESIGN SCRUGGS, ROBERT J 3723 §103§112 Final Rejection 83d Pending May 23, 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
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
18176033 INDUSTRIAL ASSET MODEL ROLLBACK PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2023
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 §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
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
17568912 WAVEFORM RECONSTRUCTION IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 3645 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jan 05, 2022

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