Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fositek Corporation is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that every active application is being reviewed by a different person. This one-to-one ratio between pending actions and examiners indicates a decentralized prosecution environment for the company.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation technologies are classified into several specific technical categories. HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners each managing 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution strategy must account for 4 different individual perspectives. The 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units highlight a diverse set of technical challenges that the company must address to advance its current applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 1 | 70.5% | +21.9% |
| CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 1 | 70.7% | +16.5% |
| WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 1 | 70.2% | +18.8% |
| BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 1 | 74.5% | +17.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585254 | LATCH DEVICE | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 16d overdue |
| 18932892 | SAFETY SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3d overdue |
| 19009678 | SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19008181 | QUICK CONNECT FEMALE COUPLER STRUCTURE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585254 | LATCH DEVICE | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 16d overdue |
| 18932892 | SAFETY SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3d overdue |
| 19009678 | SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19008181 | QUICK CONNECT FEMALE COUPLER STRUCTURE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009678 | SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008181 | QUICK CONNECT FEMALE COUPLER STRUCTURE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18932892 | SAFETY SLIDE RAIL DEVICE | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18585254 | LATCH DEVICE | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 3675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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