Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Immersion Neuroscience Inc. currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's patent applications are being reviewed by a diverse group of specialists rather than being concentrated in a unit, which may lead to varying prosecution timelines across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, HANKS, BENJAMIN L, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total 3 pending office actions are divided among examiners, the workload is distributed individually. This lack of concentration means the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the individual preferences and requirements of different examiners across distinct art units. The presence of several distinct art units further indicates that the portfolio covers various technical aspects within the mechanical sector. Practitioners should prepare for distinct examination styles across these different 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 21.4% | +30.3% |
| PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 1 | 39.1% | +16.4% |
| DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 1 | 38.7% | +36.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17874114 | IMMERSION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 69d |
| 18798799 | System for Performing Contextualized Neuroscience Assessments and Associated Methods | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
| 17974609 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN REAL TIME AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17874114 | IMMERSION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 69d |
| 18798799 | System for Performing Contextualized Neuroscience Assessments and Associated Methods | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
| 17974609 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN REAL TIME AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18798799 | System for Performing Contextualized Neuroscience Assessments and Associated Methods | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 17974609 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN REAL TIME AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 3615 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17874114 | IMMERSION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 3623 | §101 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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