Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Symbotic LLC has 19 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 17 distinct examiners across 16 distinct art units, indicating a broad and mostly distributed examination profile. Counsel should use centralized docket management to identify the repeated assignments while treating each action as a separate prosecution problem.
KEENAN, JAMES W is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That limited cluster may support focused comparison of the assigned matters, but the broader workload requires wider examiner and art-unit monitoring. Consistent technical positions should not replace record-specific claim analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (13%) |
| §103 only | 6 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEE, ROY B | 1 | 70.3% | +21.7% |
| GREINER, TRISTAN J | 1 | 79.2% | +17.2% |
| RANDAZZO, THOMAS | 1 | 86.8% | +12.3% |
| KEENAN, JAMES W | 1 | 66.9% | +24.2% |
| USTARIS, JOSEPH G | 1 | 36.6% | +27.6% |
| DIAZ, THOMAS C | 1 | 68.3% | +19.3% |
| LOGAN, KYLE O | 1 | 87.4% | +9.4% |
| DOAN, PHUOC HUU | 1 | 91.6% | +8.7% |
| JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 1 | 62.8% | +24.1% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.5% | +25.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824098 | ROBOTIC EACH PICKING IN A MICRO-FULFILLMENT CENTER | LOGAN, KYLE O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114150 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RETAIL APPLICATIONS AND RETAIL OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF SAME | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 46d overdue |
| 19201548 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH VISION SYSTEM | RHEE, ROY B | — |
| 19056329 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH POWER MANAGEMENT | GREINER, TRISTAN J | — |
| 19042636 | HIGH THROUGHPUT WORKSTATIONS AND METHODS OF USE | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | — |
| 18934029 | ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| 18774716 | CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF A WORKCELL SAFETY SYSTEM | DOAN, PHUOC HUU | — |
| 18480214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING AUTOMATED FORKLIFT | JABR, FADEY S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532783 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY UNLOADING TAIL-ADJACENT PALLETS IN LOADING DOCKS | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 41d |
| 19201548 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH VISION SYSTEM | RHEE, ROY B | — |
| 19056329 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH POWER MANAGEMENT | GREINER, TRISTAN J | — |
| 19042636 | HIGH THROUGHPUT WORKSTATIONS AND METHODS OF USE | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | — |
| 18934029 | ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| 18920605 | IMAGING SYSTEM WITH RELIABLE DEPTH DETECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR | USTARIS, JOSEPH G | — |
| 18905897 | MASTLESS LIFT AND MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM INCLUDING SUCH MASTLESS LIFT | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| 18651489 | CHARGING SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 3 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2400 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19201548 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH VISION SYSTEM | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19056329 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT VEHICLE WITH POWER MANAGEMENT | GREINER, TRISTAN J | 3656 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19042636 | HIGH THROUGHPUT WORKSTATIONS AND METHODS OF USE | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18934029 | ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18920605 | IMAGING SYSTEM WITH RELIABLE DEPTH DETECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR | USTARIS, JOSEPH G | 2400 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18905897 | MASTLESS LIFT AND MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM INCLUDING SUCH MASTLESS LIFT | DIAZ, THOMAS C | 3617 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18824098 | ROBOTIC EACH PICKING IN A MICRO-FULFILLMENT CENTER | LOGAN, KYLE O | 3655 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18774716 | CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF A WORKCELL SAFETY SYSTEM | DOAN, PHUOC HUU | 2646 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18651489 | CHARGING SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18532783 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY UNLOADING TAIL-ADJACENT PALLETS IN LOADING DOCKS | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18480214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING AUTOMATED FORKLIFT | JABR, FADEY S | 3668 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18325308 | AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTS FOR STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18114150 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RETAIL APPLICATIONS AND RETAIL OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF SAME | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18106619 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SAFETY MONITORING OF COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18063202 | MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSymbotic LLC has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 15 examiners.
Roy B Rhee has the most, with 1 of Symbotic LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
