Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roam Robotics Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being evaluated independently by a different examiner in a different organizational unit.
The busiest examiner, JEN, MINGJEN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the 3 pending actions are spread across 3 examiners, no individual examiner holds a majority of the workload. This diversity requires the company to adapt to different examination styles and art unit cultures simultaneously.
The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology spans several specialized fields within the broader engineering category. This requires a broad prosecution strategy that can handle the varying standards of 3 distinct examiners. While the workload is not concentrated, the lack of overlap between examiners means that the outcome of one application is less likely to be influenced by the specific biases of another examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEN, MINGJEN | 1 | 79.9% | +14.0% |
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +13.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885289 | MARITIME APPLICATIONS FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | JEN, MINGJEN | 66d overdue |
| 17332203 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 16838347 | LEG EXOSKELETON SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885289 | MARITIME APPLICATIONS FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | JEN, MINGJEN | 66d overdue |
| 17332203 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 16838347 | LEG EXOSKELETON SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18885289 | MARITIME APPLICATIONS FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 17332203 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 3700 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2021 |
| 16838347 | LEG EXOSKELETON SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2020 |
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