Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sorting Robotics Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company current patent prosecution is limited to this single administrative path, which indicates a concentrated focus on a specific technical disclosure within the mechanical systems sector.
BENEDIK, JUSTIN M is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company current strategy is focused on a single point of review. The outcome of this specific office action will determine the immediate progress of the company mechanical intellectual property. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a streamlined prosecution phase. Practitioners must tailor their arguments to the specific technical standards of this single art unit to advance the application toward allowance.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENEDIK, JUSTIN M | 1 | 86.0% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798798 | MAGNETIC COLLET DEVICE | BENEDIK, JUSTIN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798798 | MAGNETIC COLLET DEVICE | BENEDIK, JUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18798798 | MAGNETIC COLLET DEVICE | BENEDIK, JUSTIN M | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSorting Robotics Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Justin M Benedik has the most, with 1 of Sorting Robotics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
