Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Psip2 LLC currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each active matter is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's innovations are being examined within two separate technical frameworks at the patent office.
FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across 3 distinct examiners without any concentration. This decentralized structure requires practitioners to manage 3 separate examiner relationships. While the 2 distinct art units may share some technical standards, the 3 distinct examiners will each apply their own interpretation of the rules. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each examiner to move the 3 pending office actions toward resolution.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 1 | 79.6% | +20.2% |
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 1 | 50.4% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091432 | Endoscope with Voice Control | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18796226 | Endoscope | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3681 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 17824857 | Endoscope | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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