Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Irobot Corporation

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

1
Hard (11%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only8 (89%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 2 56.1% +41.3%
YANG, WENYUAN 1 68.6% +17.5%
EVANS, KARSTON G 1 70.7% +17.2%
RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND 1 59.0% +59.7%
ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 1 41.9% +10.5%
BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 1 71.9% +21.1%
XIA, XUYANG 1 71.5% +53.4%
NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 1 51.2% +11.3%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18913039 CONTROLLING ROBOTIC LAWNMOWERS YANG, WENYUAN 27d

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
18527547 MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT DUSTPAN RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND 104d overdue
18619410 LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING USING PHYSICAL FEATURES EVANS, KARSTON G 38d overdue
17688372 CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 30d overdue
18096676 BUMPER FOR A MOBILE ROBOT BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 22d overdue
17991071 PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE IN AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT XIA, XUYANG 8d
18913039 CONTROLLING ROBOTIC LAWNMOWERS YANG, WENYUAN 27d
18118825 MAPPING NEGATIVE SPACE FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 43d
17994486 MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT WITH A SPACER CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3723 3
3667 2
3657 1
3666 1
2143 1
3656 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18913039 CONTROLLING ROBOTIC LAWNMOWERS YANG, WENYUAN 3667 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 11, 2024
18619410 LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING USING PHYSICAL FEATURES EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18527547 MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT DUSTPAN RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND 3723 §103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18207346 MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT INCLUDING SCRUBBING FEATURES CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 3723 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18118825 MAPPING NEGATIVE SPACE FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18096676 BUMPER FOR A MOBILE ROBOT BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
17994486 MOBILE CLEANING ROBOT WITH A SPACER CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 3723 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Nov 28, 2022
17991071 PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE IN AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT XIA, XUYANG 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17688372 CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2022

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