Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Universal Robots A/S is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. The work is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the pending applications fall into specific technical categories within the patent office. This distribution shows that the 4 pending office actions are spread across multiple examiners but limited to the 2 distinct art units.
JOS, BASIL T is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 highlights that the workload is spread among the 4 distinct examiners. The company must manage interactions with these examiners while navigating the requirements of the art units. This data reflects a prosecution effort where the number of examiners is higher than the number of art units.
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.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | 1 | 74.3% | +7.1% |
| JOS, BASIL T | 1 | 78.0% | +6.2% |
| LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | 1 | 85.0% | +7.7% |
| BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | 1 | 73.6% | +20.1% |
| HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 1 | 44.1% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116058 | ACCESSORY MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR A ROBOT | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19480765 | ROBOT PROGRAMMING WITH ACTIVE ASSISTING FUNCTIONS | DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17251990 | ESTIMATION OF PAYLOAD ATTACHED TO A ROBOT ARM | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 17d overdue |
| 17789570 | METHOD OF SUPPRESSING VIBRATIONS OF A ROBOT ARM WITH EXTERNAL OBJECTS | BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 3 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19480765 | ROBOT PROGRAMMING WITH ACTIVE ASSISTING FUNCTIONS | DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 18035553 | A ROBOT CONTROLLER WITH INTEGRATED LOGIC FUNCTIONALITY | JOS, BASIL T | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18116058 | ACCESSORY MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR A ROBOT | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | 3674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17789570 | METHOD OF SUPPRESSING VIBRATIONS OF A ROBOT ARM WITH EXTERNAL OBJECTS | BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17251990 | ESTIMATION OF PAYLOAD ATTACHED TO A ROBOT ARM | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
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