Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
29 pending office actions • 11 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Boston Dynamics Inc. currently manages 28 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 24 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a significant spread of examination across the USPTO, with some concentration among certain examiners.
ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. This represents a small portion of the total 28 pending office actions. The presence of 11 distinct art units suggests that the company's robotics and mechanical innovations span multiple specialized classifications within the patent office.
Practitioners should note that with 24 distinct examiners for 28 actions, most pending matters are being reviewed by different individuals. This limited examiner overlap means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific preferences of many different officials. Managing 11 distinct art units requires a sophisticated understanding of various examination guidelines within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 1 (3%) |
| §103 only | 16 (55%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (34%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 2 | 78.7% | +21.0% |
| KENIRY, HEATHER J | 2 | 81.0% | +19.5% |
| TANG, BRYANT | 2 | 86.1% | +0.2% |
| KARWAN, SIHAR A | 2 | 56.5% | +26.9% |
| BROSH, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 72.8% | +28.2% |
| ROBERSON, JASON R | 1 | 73.8% | +22.4% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.2% | +15.0% |
| NGUYEN, VIET P | 1 | 61.4% | +30.6% |
| HALL, HANA VICTORIA | 1 | 71.4% | +66.7% |
| GREINER, TRISTAN J | 1 | 79.0% | +17.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18761998 | Object-Based Robot Control | TANG, BRYANT | 30d |
| 18545050 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CEILING DETECTION | TANG, BRYANT | 75d |
| 19040953 | DYNAMIC MASS ESTIMATION METHODS FOR AN INTEGRATED MOBILE MANIPULATOR ROBOT | KENIRY, HEATHER J | — |
| 18975766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING ROBOT ACTUATORS USING IMAGE DATA | KENIRY, HEATHER J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898206 | Door Movement and Robot Traversal Using Machine Learning Object Detection | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 49d overdue |
| 18979094 | ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING DATA WITH VARIABLE DATA TYPES | HALL, HANA VICTORIA | 3d overdue |
| 18338881 | INTEGRATED NAVIGATION CALLBACKS FOR A ROBOT | GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 12d |
| 18072863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 20d |
| 18359349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MODULAR ARCHITECTURES FOR ROBOTIC END EFFECTORS | LY, MOYA PHUNG | 33d |
| 19253323 | Constrained Mobility Mapping | BROSH, BENJAMIN J | — |
| 19178191 | SEMANTIC MODELS FOR ROBOT AUTONOMY ON DYNAMIC SITES | ROBERSON, JASON R | — |
| 19086243 | ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR WITH TACTILE SENSING | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18979094 | ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING DATA WITH VARIABLE DATA TYPES | HALL, HANA VICTORIA | 3d overdue |
| 18938800 | NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 9d |
| 18072863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 20d |
| 18541256 | ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 29d |
| 19253323 | Constrained Mobility Mapping | BROSH, BENJAMIN J | — |
| 19206968 | CONSTRAINED MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | — |
| 19178191 | SEMANTIC MODELS FOR ROBOT AUTONOMY ON DYNAMIC SITES | ROBERSON, JASON R | — |
| 19086243 | ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR WITH TACTILE SENSING | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 6 |
| 3658 | 6 |
| 3657 | 5 |
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3669 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253323 | Constrained Mobility Mapping | BROSH, BENJAMIN J | 3656 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19206968 | CONSTRAINED MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19178191 | SEMANTIC MODELS FOR ROBOT AUTONOMY ON DYNAMIC SITES | ROBERSON, JASON R | 3669 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19086243 | ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR WITH TACTILE SENSING | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19040953 | DYNAMIC MASS ESTIMATION METHODS FOR AN INTEGRATED MOBILE MANIPULATOR ROBOT | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19006484 | MOTOR FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | NGUYEN, VIET P | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18979094 | ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING DATA WITH VARIABLE DATA TYPES | HALL, HANA VICTORIA | 3664 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978536 | AUTOMATED CONSTRAINED MANIPULATION | GREINER, TRISTAN J | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18975170 | ROBOT MOVEMENT AND ONLINE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION | AZHAR, ARSLAN | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18975766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING ROBOT ACTUATORS USING IMAGE DATA | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18938800 | NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18931680 | ROBOTIC STEP TIMING AND SEQUENCING USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18926580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRASPING OBJECTS WITH UNKNOWN OR UNCERTAIN EXTENTS USING A ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR | HOLWERDA, STEPHEN | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18924425 | AUTO SWING-HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 3665 | DP | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18761998 | Object-Based Robot Control | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18758024 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING POSE AND SIZE OF OBJECTS USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MACHINE LEARNING | LE, TIEN MINH | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18679613 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT QUALITY DETECTION | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18545050 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CEILING DETECTION | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18545124 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LIDAR ALIGNMENT AND CALIBRATION | GO, RICKY | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18541239 | ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18541256 | ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 3658 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18541021 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR A ROBOTIC DEVICE | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18531152 | ANCHORING BASED TRANSFORMATION FOR ALIGNING SENSOR DATA OF A ROBOT WITH A SITE MODEL | LANGHORNE, NICHOLAS PATRICK | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18447518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GUARDING A MOBILE ROBOT | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18359349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MODULAR ARCHITECTURES FOR ROBOTIC END EFFECTORS | LY, MOYA PHUNG | 3658 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18338881 | INTEGRATED NAVIGATION CALLBACKS FOR A ROBOT | GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 3665 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18335661 | ONLINE CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | 2673 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18072863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 3658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
| 17898206 | Door Movement and Robot Traversal Using Machine Learning Object Detection | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
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