Examiner: FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS

Analysis

Victoria Hicks Fisher is a patent examiner in Tech Center 3700 and Art Unit 3772. She has reached a resolution in 693 cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 40.5 percent for these applications. This percentage indicates that fewer than half of the cases assigned to her result in a patent grant. Practitioners can use this 40.5 percent rate to understand the more rigorous examination environment presented by this examiner, where abandonments are frequent.

Interviews appear to be a highly effective strategy for this examiner, as shown by an interview lift of 38.1 percent. This metric indicates that direct communication is associated with a very large increase in the probability of allowance. An interview lift of 38.1 percent suggests that verbal negotiation is a critical tool for overcoming rejections that written responses alone may not resolve. Practitioners should prioritize scheduling an interview to improve their chances of success.

The median days to allowance for successful cases is 1524. This duration represents the middle value of the time taken from filing to the issuance of a patent. A median of 1524 days provides a specific timeline for applicants to consider when managing their expectations for a lengthy prosecution process. These metrics are based on 693 resolved cases, offering a data-grounded perspective on the examiner's historical prosecution patterns.