Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chewy Inc. is currently navigating 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap may require diverse advocacy approaches for each application. With 6 pending actions and 6 distinct examiners, the company's current USPTO engagement is highly decentralized.
The 6 pending actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units. Ayal I. Sharon is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the 6 actions are spread across 4 art units, the legal team must account for the specific procedural nuances of multiple units within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The involvement of 6 distinct examiners across 4 art units suggests that some units likely contain more than one examiner assigned to the company's cases. Practitioners should focus on maintaining a consistent message while adapting to the individual preferences of the 6 examiners and the standards of the 4 art units.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARON, AYAL I | 1 | 43.4% | +29.4% |
| FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | 1 | 25.4% | +24.4% |
| NG, JONATHAN K | 1 | 35.6% | +14.0% |
| DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 1 | 66.6% | +37.6% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
| SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 1 | 27.2% | +21.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17537360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VETERINARIAN PHARMACY TRANSACTIONS | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 13d |
| 19357430 | Systems and Methods for Online Anomaly Detection | SHARON, AYAL I | — |
| 19226924 | System and Method for Automatically Matching Product Data | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | — |
| 19046034 | Systems and Methods for Compounding Pharmacy | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
| 18880100 | System and Method for Matching Pets with Pet Products | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17537360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VETERINARIAN PHARMACY TRANSACTIONS | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 13d |
| 19357430 | Systems and Methods for Online Anomaly Detection | SHARON, AYAL I | — |
| 19226924 | System and Method for Automatically Matching Product Data | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | — |
| 19046034 | Systems and Methods for Compounding Pharmacy | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
| 18880100 | System and Method for Matching Pets with Pet Products | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | — |
| 18969970 | Package Conveyor System and Method | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19357430 | Systems and Methods for Online Anomaly Detection | SHARON, AYAL I | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19226924 | System and Method for Automatically Matching Product Data | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19046034 | Systems and Methods for Compounding Pharmacy | NG, JONATHAN K | 3619 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18880100 | System and Method for Matching Pets with Pet Products | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18969970 | Package Conveyor System and Method | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 17537360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VETERINARIAN PHARMACY TRANSACTIONS | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 3689 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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