Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Midea Robozone Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners but are contained within only 2 distinct art units, suggesting some concentration of subject matter at the art unit level. This arrangement means that while the company interacts with 3 different individuals, the examination criteria may be influenced by the shared practices of the 2 distinct art units involved.
The busiest examiner, ZARROLI, MICHAEL C, is managing 1 pending office action. This is one of the 3 pending office actions for the portfolio. With 3 distinct examiners working across 2 distinct art units, the company must manage its prosecution strategy across multiple individuals while navigating the specific requirements of the 2 art units involved. For the practitioner, this distribution implies that the 3 pending office actions may share some common technical ground, given their placement in only 2 distinct art units. This can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in claim construction across the 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 72.4% | +15.6% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
| MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 1 | 59.8% | +25.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704896 | ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 9d |
| 18724603 | CLEANING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS THEREFOR | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704896 | ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 9d |
| 18724603 | CLEANING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS THEREFOR | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18724180 | ROLLER DEVICE AND CLEANING APPARATUS | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724603 | CLEANING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS THEREFOR | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18724180 | ROLLER DEVICE AND CLEANING APPARATUS | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18704896 | ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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