Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
18 pending office actions • 13 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yaskawa Electric Corporation shows a significant volume of activity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 18 pending office actions. Each of these 18 pending office actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 18 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. This total lack of overlap among examiners suggests that the company faces a broad array of examination perspectives across its pending applications.
The pending actions are situated within 13 distinct art units, demonstrating a wide reach across various technical classifications at the patent office. NOAH WILLIAM STIEBRITZ is identified as the busiest examiner, yet currently holds 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is entirely decentralized, with no single examiner or art unit concentrating the company's prosecution risk. For practitioners, this means that strategies must be tailored to 13 distinct art units and 18 distinct examiners, as there is no central point of contact or common examiner for the current applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 8 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
| DANG, TRANG THANH | 1 | 58.8% | +29.3% |
| EMMETT, MADISON B | 1 | 80.2% | +10.1% |
| PRATHER, GREGORY T | 1 | 68.5% | +21.8% |
| KRUG, RANDELL J | 1 | 76.4% | +18.1% |
| PAN, HANG | 1 | 74.7% | +25.6% |
| EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 83.6% | +23.2% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
| BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 82.1% | +15.7% |
| NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 1 | 83.4% | +10.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440146 | ROBOT SYSTEM, CALIBRATION TOOL, AND CALIBRATION METHOD | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 23d |
| 18959623 | ROBOT CONTROL WITH ERROR REDUCTION | EMMETT, MADISON B | 28d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18396700 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ORDERED COMMAND DATA SETS | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 69d |
| 19260610 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND MODELING METHOD | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | — |
| 19086177 | SYSTEM, UNIT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | DANG, TRANG THANH | — |
| 18824991 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD | PAN, HANG | — |
| 18821188 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROLLER, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18762654 | ROBOT WITH ARTICULATED ARM | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | — |
| 18450406 | SIMULATION MODEL CORRECTION OF A MACHINE SYSTEM | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
| 18363088 | IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440146 | ROBOT SYSTEM, CALIBRATION TOOL, AND CALIBRATION METHOD | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 23d |
| 18959623 | ROBOT CONTROL WITH ERROR REDUCTION | EMMETT, MADISON B | 28d |
| 19086177 | SYSTEM, UNIT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | DANG, TRANG THANH | — |
| 18951951 | ROBOT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROBOT | PRATHER, GREGORY T | — |
| 18951529 | ROBOT | KRUG, RANDELL J | — |
| 18824991 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD | PAN, HANG | — |
| 18821188 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROLLER, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18762675 | ROBOT AND ELECTRONIC SUBSTRATE TRANSFER DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19260610 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND MODELING METHOD | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19086177 | SYSTEM, UNIT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | DANG, TRANG THANH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18959623 | ROBOT CONTROL WITH ERROR REDUCTION | EMMETT, MADISON B | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18951951 | ROBOT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROBOT | PRATHER, GREGORY T | 3618 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18951529 | ROBOT | KRUG, RANDELL J | 3618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18824991 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD | PAN, HANG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18821188 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROLLER, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18762675 | ROBOT AND ELECTRONIC SUBSTRATE TRANSFER DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18762654 | ROBOT WITH ARTICULATED ARM | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18440146 | ROBOT SYSTEM, CALIBRATION TOOL, AND CALIBRATION METHOD | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 3619 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18396700 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ORDERED COMMAND DATA SETS | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18450406 | SIMULATION MODEL CORRECTION OF A MACHINE SYSTEM | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18448371 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18363088 | IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18112791 | PAINTING SYSTEM AND PAINTING METHOD | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18088766 | MACHINE LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 2147 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2022 |
| 17721372 | MACHINE LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, AND MACHINE LEARNING DATA GENERATION METHOD | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | 2121 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17670511 | COATING CONTROL SYSTEM, COATING CONTROL APPARATUS, SETTING APPARATUS OF COATING CONTROL APPARATUS, SETTING METHOD OF COATING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
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