Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Automation Anywhere, Inc. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners manages 1 action, the prosecution workload is evenly spread across the 3 distinct art units involved in the portfolio.
This distribution of 4 pending office actions among 4 distinct examiners means that practitioners cannot rely on a single examiner's past behavior to predict outcomes across the rest of the active portfolio. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's software innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups. Practitioners should prepare for 4 different examination styles when responding to the 4 pending office actions currently on file.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 1 | 42.2% | +55.4% |
| BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 1 | 74.3% | -6.0% |
| CHU JOY, JORGE A | 1 | 76.7% | +36.0% |
| HUARACHA, WILLY W | 1 | 73.0% | +55.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS AND RELATIONSHIPS | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | — |
| 17557741 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN AND ROBOTIC TASKS | HUARACHA, WILLY W | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17828021 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN, ROBOTIC AND EXTERNAL TASKS | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 36d |
| 19046964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS AND RELATIONSHIPS | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | — |
| 17557741 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN AND ROBOTIC TASKS | HUARACHA, WILLY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2195 | 1 |
| 2197 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19046964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS AND RELATIONSHIPS | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 3623 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18988695 | MACHINED LEARNING SUPPORTING DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION | BURLESON, MICHAEL L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 17828021 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN, ROBOTIC AND EXTERNAL TASKS | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | May 30, 2022 |
| 17557741 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN AND ROBOTIC TASKS | HUARACHA, WILLY W | 2197 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAutomation Anywhere, Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
William S Brockington III has the most, with 1 of Automation Anywhere, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
