Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xingmai Innovation Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that every one of the 5 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different administrative group. This level of dispersion means that the company is navigating 5 different sets of examiner preferences and art unit practices simultaneously within the Chemistry & Materials field.
SAENZ, ALBERTO is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread across the assigned staff. No single examiner handles more than 1 of the 5 pending office actions. This structure requires the company to manage 5 separate prosecution tracks without the benefit of examiner level consolidation. The involvement of 5 distinct art units further emphasizes the technical variety of the matters currently under review.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAENZ, ALBERTO | 1 | 69.1% | +30.6% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 33.3% | +4.9% |
| STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 1 | 34.7% | +22.7% |
| TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 1 | 68.8% | +20.3% |
| PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1 | 79.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452117 | POOL ROBOT | SAENZ, ALBERTO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19342629 | POOL ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND POOL ROBOT | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 31d overdue |
| 19452117 | POOL ROBOT | SAENZ, ALBERTO | — |
| 19079095 | CONTROL METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING DEVICE | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | — |
| 18614596 | DEVICES FOR IN-WATER AUTOMATIC SPREADING | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19452117 | POOL ROBOT | SAENZ, ALBERTO | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19349993 | SWIMMING POOL ROBOT | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2025 |
| 19342629 | POOL ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND POOL ROBOT | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2025 |
| 19079095 | CONTROL METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING DEVICE | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18614596 | DEVICES FOR IN-WATER AUTOMATIC SPREADING | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1779 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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