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
Aic Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus suggests a specific technical niche for the current filings, as the company is not currently engaging with multiple departments or reviewers at the patent office. Such a concentrated profile can simplify administrative tracking but also means that the company's success is tied to a single point of review.
KIANNI, KAVEH C serves as the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate patent strategy depends entirely on the interactions within this administrative channel. This concentration means that the examiner's specific preferences and the art unit's internal standards will be the primary factors in determining the outcome of the pending matter. Practitioners can focus their resources on this point of contact rather than managing a diverse array of examiner requirements, allowing for a more targeted response to the legal challenges.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIANNI, KAVEH C | 1 | 87.2% | +11.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18391600 | PANEL LIGHT GUIDE MODULE OF SOLID-STATE DRIVE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18391600 | PANEL LIGHT GUIDE MODULE OF SOLID-STATE DRIVE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18391600 | PANEL LIGHT GUIDE MODULE OF SOLID-STATE DRIVE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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