Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Boston Dynamics Inc.

27 pending office actions • 10 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
20
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
14
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
23
Medium (85%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (74%)
§102 only3 (11%)
No statute on record4 (15%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
7% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
24
Mechanical / Eng
89% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KARWAN, SIHAR A 3 56.1% +25.8%
TANG, BRYANT 2 89.2% -1.1%
SAMPLE, JONATHAN L 1 82.8% +11.8%
HALL, HANA VICTORIA 1 33.3% +100.0%
AZHAR, ARSLAN 1 77.3% +21.2%
DANG, PHONG H 1 80.7% +10.3%
MANCHO, RONNIE M 1 75.6% +2.4%
ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 1 81.4% +20.7%
TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 1 49.1% +9.1%
MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A 1 80.7% +17.8%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18975515 DATA TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES DANG, PHONG H 5d overdue
18938800 NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 9d
18983928 WHOLE BODY MANIPULATION ON A LEGGED ROBOT USING DYNAMIC BALANCE SAMPLE, JONATHAN L 22d
18761998 Object-Based Robot Control TANG, BRYANT 30d
18545050 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CEILING DETECTION TANG, BRYANT 75d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18924425 AUTO SWING-HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A 19d overdue
18975515 DATA TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES DANG, PHONG H 5d overdue
18979094 ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING DATA WITH VARIABLE DATA TYPES HALL, HANA VICTORIA 3d overdue
17693019 Systems and Methods for Robotic Manipulation Using Extended Reality KARWAN, SIHAR A 7d
18938800 NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 9d
18975170 ROBOT MOVEMENT AND ONLINE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION AZHAR, ARSLAN 15d
18072863 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION KARWAN, SIHAR A 20d
18983928 WHOLE BODY MANIPULATION ON A LEGGED ROBOT USING DYNAMIC BALANCE SAMPLE, JONATHAN L 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3658 7
3656 6
3657 5
3665 2
3669 2
3664 1
2184 1
3667 1
2117 1
2673 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18983928 WHOLE BODY MANIPULATION ON A LEGGED ROBOT USING DYNAMIC BALANCE SAMPLE, JONATHAN L 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 17, 2024
18979094 ROBOT LOCALIZATION USING DATA WITH VARIABLE DATA TYPES HALL, HANA VICTORIA 3664 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2024
18975170 ROBOT MOVEMENT AND ONLINE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION AZHAR, ARSLAN 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 10, 2024
18975515 DATA TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES DANG, PHONG H 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2024
18938925 ROBOTICALLY NEGOTIATING STAIRS MANCHO, RONNIE M 3657 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18938800 NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18924425 AUTO SWING-HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A 3665 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2024
18811123 MANIPULATING BOXES USING A ZONED GRIPPER MARC, MCDIEUNEL 3656 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2024
18805204 Continuous Slip Recovery HOLLOWAY, JASON R 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 14, 2024
18761998 Object-Based Robot Control TANG, BRYANT 3658 §103 Final Rejection 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
18431841 Stair Tracking for Modeled and Perceived Terrain ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18545050 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CEILING DETECTION TANG, BRYANT 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18541355 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING OPERATION OF MACHINERY CHOI, ALICIA M 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18541239 ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER 3657 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18541256 ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §102 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18359349 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MODULAR ARCHITECTURES FOR ROBOTIC END EFFECTORS LY, MOYA PHUNG 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18338881 INTEGRATED NAVIGATION CALLBACKS FOR A ROBOT GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18335661 ONLINE CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR A MOBILE ROBOT BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18072863 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 01, 2022
17994855 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COORDINATED BODY MOTION OF ROBOTIC DEVICES DAVIS, JERROD I 3656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2022
17988473 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LIGHTING FOR A MOBILE ROBOT VISCARRA, RICARDO I 3657 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 16, 2022
17898206 Door Movement and Robot Traversal Using Machine Learning Object Detection DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN 3669 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2022
17661685 Navigating a Mobile Robot ESTEVEZ, DAIRON 3656 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 02, 2022
17693019 Systems and Methods for Robotic Manipulation Using Extended Reality KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 11, 2022
17644840 Door Opening Behavior EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 17, 2021

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