Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aescape, Inc. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a balanced distribution of matters. This arrangement suggests that the company must manage multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously without a single point of concentration.
The portfolio is further divided among 3 distinct art units, which indicates a technical scope that spans multiple specialized groups. KHAYER, SOHANA T is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the examiners each hold a limited case load, no single official dominates the current prosecution landscape. Managing 3 distinct art units requires familiarity with various internal USPTO policies.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAYER, SOHANA T | 1 | 81.9% | +18.7% |
| JOHNSON, KYLE T | 1 | 85.3% | +15.2% |
| EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 1 | 75.3% | +3.6% |
| HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 1 | 44.4% | +79.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19259944 | FORCE SENSITIVE END EFFECTOR | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 19240618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SAFETY FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS | JOHNSON, KYLE T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19259944 | FORCE SENSITIVE END EFFECTOR | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 19240618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SAFETY FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS | JOHNSON, KYLE T | — |
| 18643939 | USER ADJUSTMENT OF ROBOTIC MASSAGE | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19259944 | FORCE SENSITIVE END EFFECTOR | KHAYER, SOHANA T | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19240618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SAFETY FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS | JOHNSON, KYLE T | 3656 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 18648905 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS THERAPY | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18643939 | USER ADJUSTMENT OF ROBOTIC MASSAGE | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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