Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Roblox Corporation

16 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
2
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (88%)
§112 only2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
19% of docket
10
Communications
62% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
UBALE, GAUTAM 1 53.9% +47.7%
SAJOUS, WESNER 1 92.0% +7.6%
ROBERTS, SHAUN A 1 75.9% +10.5%
GOCO, JOHN PATRICK 1
WU, YANNA 1 81.0% +34.7%
MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 1 67.7% +27.3%
YANG, ANDREW GUS 1 68.9% +7.5%
TSWEI, YU-JANG 1 84.3% +16.9%
LE, SARAH 1 67.0% +33.8%
CHEN, YU 1 67.7% +29.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18798227 AUTOMATIC FITTING AND TAILORING FOR STYLIZED AVATARS WU, YANNA 28d overdue
18787246 INTERACTIVE ENGAGEMENT PORTALS WITHIN VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES TSWEI, YU-JANG 2d overdue
18827335 BODY TRACKING FROM MONOCULAR VIDEO SAJOUS, WESNER 26d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18798227 AUTOMATIC FITTING AND TAILORING FOR STYLIZED AVATARS WU, YANNA 28d overdue
18916597 RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT ITEMS UBALE, GAUTAM 4d overdue
18794535 ONLINE GAME NETWORK DEMULTIPLEXER WITH DENIAL-OF-SERVICE PREVENTION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 4d overdue
18787246 INTERACTIVE ENGAGEMENT PORTALS WITHIN VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES TSWEI, YU-JANG 2d overdue
18811550 CROSS-MODAL TRAINING OF A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL THAT IDENTIFIES ABUSE IN AUDIO STREAMS ROBERTS, SHAUN A 5d
18770776 NORMAL-REGULARIZED CONFORMAL DEFORMATION FOR STYLIZED THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING CHEN, YU 29d
18770779 IMPLICIT SOLID SHAPE MODELING USING CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID GEOMETRY LE, SARAH 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2614 3
2611 2
3715 2
3689 1
2612 1
2655 1
2615 1
2454 1
2613 1
2633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18916597 RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT ITEMS UBALE, GAUTAM 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2024
18827335 BODY TRACKING FROM MONOCULAR VIDEO SAJOUS, WESNER 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18811550 CROSS-MODAL TRAINING OF A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL THAT IDENTIFIES ABUSE IN AUDIO STREAMS ROBERTS, SHAUN A 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18800370 VALIDATION OF QUALITY OF LAYERED CLOTHING FOR AN AVATAR BODY GOCO, JOHN PATRICK 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18798227 AUTOMATIC FITTING AND TAILORING FOR STYLIZED AVATARS WU, YANNA 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2024
18794535 ONLINE GAME NETWORK DEMULTIPLEXER WITH DENIAL-OF-SERVICE PREVENTION MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 2454 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2024
18788816 SCALABLE SOFT BODY LOCOMOTION YANG, ANDREW GUS 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18787246 INTERACTIVE ENGAGEMENT PORTALS WITHIN VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES TSWEI, YU-JANG 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18770779 IMPLICIT SOLID SHAPE MODELING USING CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID GEOMETRY LE, SARAH 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18770776 NORMAL-REGULARIZED CONFORMAL DEFORMATION FOR STYLIZED THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18735614 ADAPTIVE MECHANISM FOR VIRTUAL ASSET DOWNLOAD CHAN, ALLEN 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18440267 DISPLAYING LEVELS OF DETAIL OF 2D AND 3D OBJECTS IN VIRTUAL SPACES USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18427230 SIMILARITY ANALYSIS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) OBJECTS HAIDER, SYED 2633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 30, 2024
18213307 RANKING ITEMS FOR PRESENTATION IN A USER INTERFACE TANK, ANDREW L 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18071341 MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL THAT RECOMMENDS VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES BASED ON GRAPHS AND CLUSTERING DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 29, 2022
17920287 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSIBLE COMPUTER-USER INTERACTIONS ANTOINE, LISA HOPE 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2022

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