Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Rugged Robotics Inc.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Rugged Robotics Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems prosecution strategy involves managing separate examiner relationships simultaneously.

The pending office actions are categorized into 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration despite the variety of examiners involved. BESTEMAN-STREET, JACOB KENT is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the total actions, BESTEMAN-STREET, JACOB KENT handles a portion of the overall workload. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending action in a single art unit suggests that while the examiners are unique, their technical focus is grouped within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

1
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (50%)
§103 only1 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
50% 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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BESTEMAN-STREET, JACOB KENT 1 88.4% +2.4%
ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 1 57.7% +38.5%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18680947 SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MOBILITY PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR SHAPE BASED LANDMARK RECOGNITION BESTEMAN-STREET, JACOB KENT —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18593558 MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION OF CONSTRUCTION SITES ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 17d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3667 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18680947 SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MOBILITY PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR SHAPE BASED LANDMARK RECOGNITION BESTEMAN-STREET, JACOB KENT — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 31, 2024
18593558 MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION OF CONSTRUCTION SITES ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 3667 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024

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