Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Blue Ocean Gear Inc. is prosecuting a portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FABER, DAVID, who is working within 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates that FABER, DAVID is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending. This means the entirety of the company's active prosecution is currently in the hands of this 1 distinct examiner. Such a concentrated footprint in 1 distinct art unit suggests the technology is specialized.
For a portfolio with 1 pending office action, the focus is on a single high-stakes or high-priority application rather than a broad array of filings. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved to navigate this single pending matter effectively. The lack of examiner diversity means there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior within this portfolio. Consequently, the immediate success of the company's patent strategy depends on the interactions with FABER, DAVID. Every response to the 1 pending office action must be carefully tailored to the specific examination style of the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FABER, DAVID | 1 | 50.9% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17895706 | DISPLAY OF OCEAN-BASED GEAR POSITION TO USERS | FABER, DAVID | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17895706 | DISPLAY OF OCEAN-BASED GEAR POSITION TO USERS | FABER, DAVID | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17895706 | DISPLAY OF OCEAN-BASED GEAR POSITION TO USERS | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
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