Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verdant Robotics Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are 3 pending office actions currently active, and these are handled by 3 distinct examiners. This ratio between actions and examiners indicates that no single examiner is managing multiple pending matters for the company. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of mechanical or system-based inventions.
The busiest examiner, CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending office actions, the prosecution is highly decentralized. Each of the 3 pending office actions is being evaluated by a different official in a different technical group. Practitioners should be prepared for unique examination experiences, as the 3 distinct examiners in 3 distinct art units will likely apply different perspectives to the Verdant Robotics Inc. applications. Coordinating across these 3 distinct art units will be necessary to ensure consistency in the 3 pending office actions.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 36.7% | +16.1% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18499018 | SPRAY EVALUATION OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY AN AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL TREATMENT SYSTEM VIA SPRAY DETECTIONS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982213 | CONFIGURABLE AND MODULAR LASER COMPONENT FOR TARGETING SMALL OBJECTS | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 82d |
| 18499018 | SPRAY EVALUATION OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY AN AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL TREATMENT SYSTEM VIA SPRAY DETECTIONS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982213 | CONFIGURABLE AND MODULAR LASER COMPONENT FOR TARGETING SMALL OBJECTS | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18499018 | SPRAY EVALUATION OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY AN AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL TREATMENT SYSTEM VIA SPRAY DETECTIONS | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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