Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Automation Anywhere, Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each examiner is currently managing exactly one action for the company across a variety of technical groups.
BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The spread across 4 art units for only 5 actions suggests that the company's software applications are being reviewed by several different specialized technical groups. For a practitioner, this means that the company's computing innovations are diverse enough to trigger reviews from multiple units within the patent office. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company's current prosecution experience is not concentrated with any single individual. This requires a strategy that can account for the different perspectives of 5 examiners and the specific requirements of 4 different art units within the Computing & Software field.
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 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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% | +54.9% |
| BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 1 | 47.5% | +30.1% |
| MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES | 1 | 67.2% | +41.8% |
| CHU JOY, JORGE A | 1 | 76.7% | +36.6% |
| HUARACHA, WILLY W | 1 | 73.3% | +54.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 | — |
| 18401085 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION PROVIDING PROCESS IDENTIFICATION FROM RECORDINGS OF USER-INITIATED EVENTS | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | — |
| 18215132 | SOFTWARE ROBOTS WITH CHANGE DETECTION FOR UTILIZED APPLICATION PROGRAMS | MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES | — |
| 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 5 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 | — |
| 18401085 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION PROVIDING PROCESS IDENTIFICATION FROM RECORDINGS OF USER-INITIATED EVENTS | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | — |
| 18215132 | SOFTWARE ROBOTS WITH CHANGE DETECTION FOR UTILIZED APPLICATION PROGRAMS | MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES | — |
| 17557741 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HUMAN AND ROBOTIC TASKS | HUARACHA, WILLY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2197 | 2 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| 2195 | 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 |
| 18401085 | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION PROVIDING PROCESS IDENTIFICATION FROM RECORDINGS OF USER-INITIATED EVENTS | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2151 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18215132 | SOFTWARE ROBOTS WITH CHANGE DETECTION FOR UTILIZED APPLICATION PROGRAMS | MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES | 2197 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 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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