Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 105 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anker Innovations Technology Co., Ltd. has 7 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units. This high number of 6 art units relative to the 7 total actions suggests that the company's innovations are being classified into many different specialized technical categories.
The portfolio involves 7 distinct examiners. DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This shows a ratio of 1 examiner per action, with each of the 7 actions being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner concentration means that no single person has a disproportionate impact on the company's current pending workload.
With 7 pending actions and 7 examiners across 6 art units, the company faces an extremely fragmented prosecution environment. Because nearly every action is in a different art unit and every action has a different examiner, there is almost no opportunity for the company to find consistent patterns. Practitioners must develop a unique strategy for each of the 7 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 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 1 | 77.0% | +10.9% |
| PARRIES, DRU M | 1 | 62.9% | +13.4% |
| ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 72.4% | +15.6% |
| TON, DAVID L | 1 | 84.7% | +12.5% |
| FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 1 | 69.9% | +67.6% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.2% |
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660469 | CALL NOISE REDUCTION | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 14d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269577 | Cleaning Robot | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 19010709 | TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT CLEANER AND ROBOT CLEANER | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18903757 | HEADPHONE CONTROL METHOD AND HEADPHONE | TON, DAVID L | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269577 | Cleaning Robot | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 19227935 | Voltage Conversion Circuit and Portable Power Source | PARRIES, DRU M | — |
| 19010709 | TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT CLEANER AND ROBOT CLEANER | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18903757 | HEADPHONE CONTROL METHOD AND HEADPHONE | TON, DAVID L | — |
| 18768834 | Air duct assembly and cleaning device | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | — |
| 18612375 | Cleaning System | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269577 | Cleaning Robot | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19227935 | Voltage Conversion Circuit and Portable Power Source | PARRIES, DRU M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19010709 | TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT CLEANER AND ROBOT CLEANER | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 3658 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18903757 | HEADPHONE CONTROL METHOD AND HEADPHONE | TON, DAVID L | 2695 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18768834 | Air duct assembly and cleaning device | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 3723 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18660469 | CALL NOISE REDUCTION | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18612375 | Cleaning System | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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