Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vsi Health & Hygiene Group LLC currently has 1 pending office action under review. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, representing the total active prosecution for the company. The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with this pending activity, which suggests a unique administrative categorization or a specific stage in the filing process that has not yet assigned a standard art unit designation.
The busiest examiner identified for the company is OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since 1 distinct examiner is responsible for all current activity, the company's patent strategy is entirely focused on this single interaction. Practitioners should prioritize the specific examination patterns of OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY as there are no other examiners currently influencing the portfolio's progress.
With 1 pending office action and 0 distinct art units, the portfolio's current footprint is extremely narrow. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the company's immediate patent efforts depends on a single point of contact. This concentration simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action but limits the breadth of the current patent office engagement for Vsi Health & Hygiene Group LLC.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.5% | +7.3% |
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18222062 | DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING SHEET MATERIAL | KUMAR, RAKESH | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212950 | SHEET MATERIAL DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING SHEET MATERIAL FROM A PLURALITY OF SUPPLIES OF ROLLED SHEET MATERIAL | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 18222062 | DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING SHEET MATERIAL | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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