Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecovacs Robotics Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 pending office actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that each pending matter is reviewed by a different person, indicating a lack of examiner overlap in the current workload.
The company's prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units. This count of 3 distinct art units is lower than the 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that the 4 pending office actions involve several different technical sub-fields. RAILEY, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the count for the other 3 distinct examiners.
Practitioners should note that the 4 pending office actions are being reviewed in 3 distinct art units, which is a high ratio of units to actions for a portfolio of this size. The use of 4 distinct examiners for 4 actions means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the portfolio's outcomes. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms the even distribution of the workload across the examination staff.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAILEY, JENNIFER A | 1 | 79.5% | +8.1% |
| PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 1 | 58.6% | -2.9% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 51.7% | +39.9% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17731130 | DUSTER CLOTH FOR CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING ROBOT USING SAME | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780931 | STRUCTURED LIGHT MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 9d |
| 17731130 | DUSTER CLOTH FOR CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING ROBOT USING SAME | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099461 | INTELLIGENT MOWING DEVICE | RAILEY, JENNIFER A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18681526 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 17780931 | STRUCTURED LIGHT MODULE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17731130 | DUSTER CLOTH FOR CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING ROBOT USING SAME | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
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