Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ace Power And Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is concentrated within a single technical and administrative channel. This suggests that the company's intellectual property efforts are currently focused on a specific innovation rather than a diverse set of technologies.
GARY L LAXTON is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This action represents the total pending volume for the company. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action, the company's immediate patent office interactions are centralized with one reviewer. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as they currently control the entirety of the company's pending workload in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAXTON, GARY L | 1 | 86.5% | +5.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579327 | THREE-LEVEL CONTROL CIRCUIT, POWER CONVERSION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | LAXTON, GARY L | 2838 | — | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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