Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amicro Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. The presence of 8 actions and 4 examiners suggests that some examiners are handling multiple filings for the company, which may allow for more consistent prosecution outcomes within specific technical niches. This concentration can be advantageous for maintaining a unified legal strategy across related software applications. The active pipeline indicates a steady effort to expand the company's software patent portfolio.
The busiest examiner, STCLAIR, ANDREW D, is responsible for 5 pending office actions. This accounts for a significant portion of the 8 total pending office actions for the company. Because STCLAIR, ANDREW D handles 5 actions while the company only has 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, this individual examiner's decisions will significantly impact the overall success of the current portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this examiner, as they oversee many of the 8 pending matters across the 3 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 5 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
| STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 1 | 34.7% | +22.7% |
| ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 1 | 57.7% | +38.5% |
| YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 1 | 41.7% | +36.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769361 | Method for Determining Working Start Point of Movement Limit Frame of Robot and Method for Controlling Movement of Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 545d overdue |
| 17790144 | Infrared Transceiver Unit, Detection Apparatus, Multi-Infrared Detection Apparatus and Obstacle Avoidance Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 498d overdue |
| 17773060 | Universal Method for Controlling Recharge of Robot, Chip and Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 482d overdue |
| 17791916 | Method for Establishing Map Traversal Blocks of Global Grid Map, Chip, and Mobile Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 463d overdue |
| 18278849 | Reconfigurable processor for forming data path pipeline structure and configuration method for forming data path pipeline structure | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 410d overdue |
| 18712674 | METHOD FOR ROBOTS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF OBSTACLE LABELING | YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 34d |
| 19186543 | CARPET DETECTING METHOD FOR ROBOT, ROBOT OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHOD, ROBOT, AND CHIP | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | — |
| 18870600 | MAP REGION CONTOUR-BASED SETTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT EDGEWISE WALKING TERMINATION | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769361 | Method for Determining Working Start Point of Movement Limit Frame of Robot and Method for Controlling Movement of Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 545d overdue |
| 17790144 | Infrared Transceiver Unit, Detection Apparatus, Multi-Infrared Detection Apparatus and Obstacle Avoidance Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 498d overdue |
| 17773060 | Universal Method for Controlling Recharge of Robot, Chip and Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 482d overdue |
| 17791916 | Method for Establishing Map Traversal Blocks of Global Grid Map, Chip, and Mobile Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 463d overdue |
| 18278849 | Reconfigurable processor for forming data path pipeline structure and configuration method for forming data path pipeline structure | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 410d overdue |
| 18712674 | METHOD FOR ROBOTS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF OBSTACLE LABELING | YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 34d |
| 19186543 | CARPET DETECTING METHOD FOR ROBOT, ROBOT OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHOD, ROBOT, AND CHIP | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | — |
| 18870600 | MAP REGION CONTOUR-BASED SETTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT EDGEWISE WALKING TERMINATION | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 5 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186543 | CARPET DETECTING METHOD FOR ROBOT, ROBOT OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHOD, ROBOT, AND CHIP | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 18870600 | MAP REGION CONTOUR-BASED SETTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT EDGEWISE WALKING TERMINATION | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3667 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18712674 | METHOD FOR ROBOTS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF OBSTACLE LABELING | YANOSKA, JOSEPH ANDERSON | 3664 | §101 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18278849 | Reconfigurable processor for forming data path pipeline structure and configuration method for forming data path pipeline structure | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 410d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 17791916 | Method for Establishing Map Traversal Blocks of Global Grid Map, Chip, and Mobile Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 463d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2022 |
| 17790144 | Infrared Transceiver Unit, Detection Apparatus, Multi-Infrared Detection Apparatus and Obstacle Avoidance Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 498d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17773060 | Universal Method for Controlling Recharge of Robot, Chip and Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 482d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17769361 | Method for Determining Working Start Point of Movement Limit Frame of Robot and Method for Controlling Movement of Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 545d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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