Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Group Co. Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This level of activity suggests a diverse and active prosecution phase for the company's engineering portfolio, requiring the management of multiple technical arguments across different specialized groups at the patent office.
STCLAIR, ANDREW D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions, which is the highest concentration of work for any single examiner in this group. With 5 pending office actions total, the company's strategy must account for the varied requirements of 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should prioritize the relationship with the busiest examiner while maintaining a consistent technical narrative across the 3 distinct art units involved in these cases to ensure portfolio-wide coherence and efficient resolution of all pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
| SHARMA, SHIVAM | 1 | 43.4% | +8.7% |
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 1 | 43.8% | +30.9% |
| HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW | 1 | 65.5% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217456 | DUST-COLLECTING BOX AND CLEANING DEVICE | HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW | 70d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17948212 | Front Bumper Assembly and Cleaning Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 512d overdue |
| 17947206 | Debris Bin Assembly, Cleaning Robot and Cleaning Robot System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 437d overdue |
| 18217456 | DUST-COLLECTING BOX AND CLEANING DEVICE | HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW | 70d |
| 18348580 | CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING SYSTEM | MULLER, BRYAN R | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| 2178 | 2 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18351484 | ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND ROBOT | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18348580 | CLEANING ROBOT AND CLEANING SYSTEM | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18217456 | DUST-COLLECTING BOX AND CLEANING DEVICE | HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17947206 | Debris Bin Assembly, Cleaning Robot and Cleaning Robot System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 437d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
| 17948212 | Front Bumper Assembly and Cleaning Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 512d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
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