Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 1 | 72.0% | +12.1% |
| SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | 1 | 85.9% | +12.9% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 75.9% | +2.1% |
| WALTERS, RYAN J | 1 | 74.4% | +29.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022178 | METHOD FOR EXTRICATING POOL CLEANING ROBOT FROM STUCK STATE AND THE CORRESPONIDING POOL CLEANING ROBOT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324923 | Robot Swimming Pool Cleaner Capable of Adjusting Water Flow Jetting Direction and Control Method thereof | WALTERS, RYAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169094 | PATH PLANNING METHOD, POOL CLEANING ROBOT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | — |
| 19022178 | METHOD FOR EXTRICATING POOL CLEANING ROBOT FROM STUCK STATE AND THE CORRESPONIDING POOL CLEANING ROBOT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | — |
| 18324923 | Robot Swimming Pool Cleaner Capable of Adjusting Water Flow Jetting Direction and Control Method thereof | WALTERS, RYAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169094 | PATH PLANNING METHOD, POOL CLEANING ROBOT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19022178 | METHOD FOR EXTRICATING POOL CLEANING ROBOT FROM STUCK STATE AND THE CORRESPONIDING POOL CLEANING ROBOT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18931094 | SWIMMING-POOL WATER SURFACE MAP CREATING METHOD AND SWIMMING POOL CLEANING DEVICE | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18324923 | Robot Swimming Pool Cleaner Capable of Adjusting Water Flow Jetting Direction and Control Method thereof | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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