Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Law Offices Of Charles R. Cypher

7 pending office actions • 3 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 1 70.7% +14.8%
AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED 1
FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 1 68.7% +21.5%
CARTER, AARON W 1 85.1% +8.4%
DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 1 78.2% +13.2%
FISSEL, TRAVIS S 1 76.4% +10.6%
HIJAZ, OMAR F 1 55.5% +35.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17910777 Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction CARTER, AARON W 19d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17600525 Column Shoe Manufactured From One Piece of Sheet Metal HIJAZ, OMAR F 103d overdue
18651445 Insulated Concrete Form Connector CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 77d overdue
18217508 Hoist Clip FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 70d overdue
17543506 Eyewear with Ventilation Openings FISSEL, TRAVIS S 6d
17700388 THRUST NUT DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 42d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36332
36352
26611
39931
28721

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18651445 Insulated Concrete Form Connector Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18593841 Connector for Pre-Fabricated Walls Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED 3635 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18217508 Hoist Clip Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
17910777 Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction Simpson Strong-Tie A/S CARTER, AARON W 2661 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 09, 2022
17700388 THRUST NUT Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 3993 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 21, 2022
17543506 Eyewear with Ventilation Openings Wiley X, Inc. FISSEL, TRAVIS S 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 06, 2021
17600525 Column Shoe Manufactured From One Piece of Sheet Metal Simpson Strong-Tie A/S HIJAZ, OMAR F 3635 §102 Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021

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