Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou Smorobot Technology Co., Ltd. is engaged in patent prosecution within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is under the review of a different individual. This arrangement suggests a distributed approach to the examination of the company's current filings in the chemistry sector.
The 3 pending office actions are also distributed across 3 distinct art units. This alignment of 3 actions and 3 distinct art units indicates that each of the company's current matters is being treated as a technically distinct case within the patent office. The lack of overlap between the art units suggests that the portfolio covers a variety of specific niches within the broader Chemistry & Materials field.
GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling 1 action, the workload is evenly split across the 3 pending office actions. This distribution means that GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS and the other examiners each have an impact on the company's current prosecution status.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 1 | 33.0% | +7.7% |
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.6% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807756 | WALL COLLISION U-TURNING METHOD FOR SWIMMING POOL CLEANING ROBOT, SWIMMING POOL EDGE CLEANING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | — |
| 18798943 | POOL CLEANING ROBOT WITH DISPLAY DEVICE | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798943 | POOL CLEANING ROBOT WITH DISPLAY DEVICE | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807756 | WALL COLLISION U-TURNING METHOD FOR SWIMMING POOL CLEANING ROBOT, SWIMMING POOL EDGE CLEANING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 1714 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18798954 | POOL CLEANING ROBOT WITH ROLLER BRUSH CLEANING STRUCTURE | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18798943 | POOL CLEANING ROBOT WITH DISPLAY DEVICE | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSuzhou Smorobot Technology Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mario Carlos Gonzalez has the most, with 1 of Suzhou Smorobot Technology Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
