Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Symbotic, LLC

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

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
2
Semiconductors
22% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
78% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHWENNING, LYNN E 1 76.2% +22.6%
CRAWLEY, TALIA F 1 48.3% +25.8%
MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 1 83.6% +13.1%
NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE 1 73.7% +16.3%
SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN 1 54.9% +15.5%
ST CYR, DANIEL 1 81.3% +13.3%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 1 17.6% +37.5%
KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL 1 86.7% +21.1%
TRISCHLER, JOHN T 1 68.3% +21.5%

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
18507854 LOGISTICS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH ROBUST OBJECT DETECTION, LOCALIZATION AND MONITORING MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 4d overdue
18222320 FULLY AUTOMATED SELF-SERVICE STORE ST CYR, DANIEL 2d overdue
18106619 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SAFETY MONITORING OF COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL 13d

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
18114150 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RETAIL APPLICATIONS AND RETAIL OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF SAME BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 46d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18162307 ROVER CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR TRISCHLER, JOHN T 52d overdue
18114150 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RETAIL APPLICATIONS AND RETAIL OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF SAME BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 46d overdue
18358453 AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN 25d overdue
18507854 LOGISTICS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH ROBUST OBJECT DETECTION, LOCALIZATION AND MONITORING MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 4d overdue
18222320 FULLY AUTOMATED SELF-SERVICE STORE ST CYR, DANIEL 2d overdue
19358060 MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM WITH PALLETIZATION RE-PLANNING SCHWENNING, LYNN E 1d overdue
18106619 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SAFETY MONITORING OF COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL 13d
18532783 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY UNLOADING TAIL-ADJACENT PALLETS IN LOADING DOCKS CRAWLEY, TALIA F 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3652 1
3627 1
3653 1
3658 1
3619 1
2876 1
3624 1
3657 1
2859 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19358060 MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM WITH PALLETIZATION RE-PLANNING SCHWENNING, LYNN E 3652 Other Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2025
18532783 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY UNLOADING TAIL-ADJACENT PALLETS IN LOADING DOCKS CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18507854 LOGISTICS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH ROBUST OBJECT DETECTION, LOCALIZATION AND MONITORING MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18359981 SPATIAL MODELING BASED ON POINT COLLECTION AND VOXEL GRID NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE 3658 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18358453 AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18222320 FULLY AUTOMATED SELF-SERVICE STORE ST CYR, DANIEL 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18114150 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING RETAIL APPLICATIONS AND RETAIL OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS, AND OPTIMIZING OPERATION OF SAME BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18106619 CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SAFETY MONITORING OF COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18162307 ROVER CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR TRISCHLER, JOHN T 2859 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023

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