Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
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.
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.
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 | 6 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.9% | +10.7% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.7% | +15.2% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +13.1% |
| MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 1 | 86.7% | +10.9% |
| BOYCE, ANDRE D | 1 | 36.0% | +19.2% |
| CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 1 | 46.0% | +34.5% |
| KHANDPUR, JAY | 1 | 85.3% | +10.6% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.0% | +10.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269000 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING PRODUCTS WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY BY MEANS OF A ROBOT, AND STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | KHANDPUR, JAY | 36d overdue |
| 18573862 | DISTRIBUTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING GOODS IN A STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 9d |
| 18575722 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR LOADING A TARGET LOADING AID, AND WAREHOUSE AND PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 14d |
| 18835661 | IMPROVED OVERHEAD CONVEYING DEVICE FOR AN ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM, AND TRANSPORT CARRIER FOR TRANSPORTING HANGING GOODS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 36d |
| 18574923 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PICKING GOODS THAT COME FROM TWO DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS, AND STORAGE AND PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269000 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING PRODUCTS WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY BY MEANS OF A ROBOT, AND STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | KHANDPUR, JAY | 36d overdue |
| 18278895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND/OR OPTIMIZING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF AN INTRALOGISTICS SYSTEM | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 28d overdue |
| 18575374 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES FROM A LONG-TERM STORE TO A SHORT-TERM BUFFER, AND STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 18d overdue |
| 17927090 | CONNECTING DEVICE FOR ASSEMBLING A HOLDER FOR COMPONENTS OF A CONVEYOR DEVICE, AND CONVEYOR DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING UNIT LOADS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 4d overdue |
| 18573862 | DISTRIBUTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING GOODS IN A STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 9d |
| 18575722 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR LOADING A TARGET LOADING AID, AND WAREHOUSE AND PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 14d |
| 18573313 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFIYING A SOURCE OF FAULT IN AN INTRALOGISTICS SYSTEM WITH THE AID OF A GRAPH MODEL | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 28d |
| 18835661 | IMPROVED OVERHEAD CONVEYING DEVICE FOR AN ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM, AND TRANSPORT CARRIER FOR TRANSPORTING HANGING GOODS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 3 |
| 3655 | 2 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835661 | IMPROVED OVERHEAD CONVEYING DEVICE FOR AN ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM, AND TRANSPORT CARRIER FOR TRANSPORTING HANGING GOODS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18575374 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES FROM A LONG-TERM STORE TO A SHORT-TERM BUFFER, AND STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18575722 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR LOADING A TARGET LOADING AID, AND WAREHOUSE AND PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18574923 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PICKING GOODS THAT COME FROM TWO DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS, AND STORAGE AND PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18573862 | DISTRIBUTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING GOODS IN A STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18573313 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFIYING A SOURCE OF FAULT IN AN INTRALOGISTICS SYSTEM WITH THE AID OF A GRAPH MODEL | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 3623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18278895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND/OR OPTIMIZING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF AN INTRALOGISTICS SYSTEM | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18269000 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING PRODUCTS WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY BY MEANS OF A ROBOT, AND STORAGE AND ORDER-PICKING SYSTEM THEREFOR | KHANDPUR, JAY | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17927090 | CONNECTING DEVICE FOR ASSEMBLING A HOLDER FOR COMPONENTS OF A CONVEYOR DEVICE, AND CONVEYOR DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING UNIT LOADS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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