Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing Roborock Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The use of 1 distinct art unit for 2 distinct examiners suggests a unified technological classification for the company's pending patent applications, even as different individuals conduct the reviews.
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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAHINIAN, LEVON J | 1 | 85.6% | -6.5% |
| MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 1 | 71.3% | +28.8% |
| YENCHESKY, RICHARD EDWIN | 1 | 96.0% | -3.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35523772 | Scald preventing cover of clothes treating apparatus | YENCHESKY, RICHARD EDWIN | 71d overdue |
| 19107738 | LAUNDRY TREATMENT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SHAHINIAN, LEVON J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688716 | LAUNDRY TREATING DEVICE | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688716 | LAUNDRY TREATING DEVICE | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| 2974 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107738 | LAUNDRY TREATMENT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SHAHINIAN, LEVON J | 1711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18688716 | LAUNDRY TREATING DEVICE | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 35523772 | Scald preventing cover of clothes treating apparatus | YENCHESKY, RICHARD EDWIN | 2974 | §112 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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