Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
4Gd Limited currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for varying examination styles, as each matter is handled by a different individual in a different administrative unit. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a range of technical sub-sectors within the broader electronics field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different technical standards and potential precedents. The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the portfolio's technical breadth requires diverse expertise from the patent office. Each examiner is managing 1 pending matter, indicating a balanced distribution of the current workload across the assigned staff. This structure requires the company to maintain consistent arguments across different examination environments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 1 | 18.8% | +70.3% |
| EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 1 | 68.2% | +15.3% |
| ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 1 | 16.1% | +67.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274160 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 98d overdue |
| 18274169 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | — |
| 17926917 | FACILITY FOR USE IN PROVIDING SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274160 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 98d overdue |
| 18274169 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | — |
| 17926917 | FACILITY FOR USE IN PROVIDING SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18274169 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | — | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18274160 | SYSTEM FOR BEHAVIOUR MONITORING | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 2857 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 17926917 | FACILITY FOR USE IN PROVIDING SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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