Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
40 pending office actions • 7 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 40 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 114 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd. demonstrates a robust prosecution pipeline with 41 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 26 distinct examiners, indicating a broad and active engagement with the patent office. The workload spans 7 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's mechanical and medical innovations are categorized across specialized examination groups.
RIVERA, CARLOS A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 4 pending office actions. While this examiner has the highest individual count, the 4 pending office actions represent a small fraction of the 41 total pending office actions, highlighting the high degree of examiner diversity across the 26 distinct examiners. This distribution requires a coordinated strategy to maintain consistency in claim language and legal arguments across the 7 distinct art units involved in the company's mechanical engineering portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 + other | 2 (5%) |
| §103 only | 15 (38%) |
| §102 only | 5 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 4 | 77.3% | +29.2% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 4 | 52.1% | +25.8% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3 | 57.3% | +41.1% |
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 3 | 43.8% | +30.9% |
| MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 2 | 65.8% | +52.7% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 2 | 67.5% | +44.3% |
| JOH, CATHERINE | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 2 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.2% |
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615586 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 29d |
| 18521366 | CLEANING DEVICE | HUANG, STEVEN | 75d |
| 19342076 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | — |
| 18865375 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARTUS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 18865387 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARATUS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| 18853746 | CLEANING ROBOT | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | — |
| 18728233 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
| 18728056 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546647 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 22d overdue |
| 18028387 | WATER SUPPLY MECHANISM AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 9d overdue |
| 18615586 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 29d |
| 18576675 | DUST BOX AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | HENSON, KATINA N | 62d |
| 19342076 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | — |
| 18865375 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARTUS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 18865387 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARATUS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| 18728233 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 16 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342076 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 3667 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 18865375 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARTUS | TEKA, ABIY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18865387 | CLEANING MODULE AND CLEANING APPARATUS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18853746 | CLEANING ROBOT | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18728233 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18728092 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18728056 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18728064 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18727905 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18726940 | ACCOMMODATING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | BLEVINS, JERRY M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18726864 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18726779 | ZONE CLEANING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING ROBOT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18725794 | SELF-CLEANING DUST COLLECTION SEATS AND DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18725249 | SELF-CLEANING MAINTENANCE STATION AND SELF-CLEANING SYSTEM | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18725191 | DUST BAG, SELF-CLEANING DUST COLLECTION SEAT AND DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | JOH, CATHERINE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18725190 | SELF-CLEANING MAINTENANCE STATION AND SELF-CLEANING SYSTEM | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18725349 | SELF-CLEANING DUST COLLECTION BASE AND DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18725438 | SELF-CLEANING DUST COLLECTION HOLDER, AND DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18724745 | SELF-CLEANING DUST COLLECTION BASE AND DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | MULLER, BRYAN R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18719852 | DUST COLLECTION PILE, AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING SYSTEM | JOH, CATHERINE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18615586 | LINE LASER MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | MOTAZEDI, SAHAR | 3667 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18605756 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18682776 | BASE STATION AND CLEANING ROBOT SYSTEM | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18681791 | SELF-MOVING DEVICE | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18414106 | BASE STATION AND CLEANING ROBOT SYSTEM | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18576675 | DUST BOX AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18569750 | RECYCLING BIN AND CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18521366 | CLEANING DEVICE | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18564455 | CLEANING APPARATUS AND DIRT DETECTION METHOD | FLORES, JUAN G | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18557097 | FAN ASSEMBLY, DUST COLLECTION PILE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | SEHN, MICHAEL L | 3745 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18287459 | SELF-MOVING CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18546647 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18276826 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18276814 | AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18261735 | OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE FOR CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING ROBOT | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18028387 | WATER SUPPLY MECHANISM AND AUTOMATIC CLEANING APPARATUS | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18043586 | CLEANING BRUSH, SMART CLEANING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CLEANING BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18003453 | CLEANING APPARATUS | HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 17956561 | BASE STATION AND CLEANING ROBOT SYSTEM | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17232382 | GEARBOX AND INTELLIGENT CLEANING APPARATUS | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2021 |
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