Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Psip2 LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but 1 art unit, indicating a shared technical examination setting with some examiner overlap.
BOICE, JAMES EDWARD is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should coordinate those responses for consistency while addressing the remaining examiner assignment separately.
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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 2 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 1 | 79.3% | +20.5% |
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 1 | 50.4% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796226 | Endoscope | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091432 | Endoscope with Voice Control | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | — |
| 17824857 | Endoscope | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091432 | Endoscope with Voice Control | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 3795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18796226 | Endoscope | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 17954893 | Illumination for Endoscope | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17824857 | Endoscope | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPsip2 LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
James Edward Boice has the most, with 2 of Psip2 LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
