Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aker Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience is not concentrated under a single examiner, requiring the legal team to adapt to multiple examination styles.
Both pending actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical subject matter of the company's current filings is focused within 1 specialized group at the patent office. For a patent practitioner, this means that while the examiners are different, they likely share a common technical background and follow the same art unit-specific guidelines.
JOSEPH CHANG is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing a single pending office action. The remaining action is handled by the other distinct examiner, ensuring that no single individual has a dominant influence over the entire portfolio's outcome at this time. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit to ensure consistency.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, JOSEPH | 1 | 89.8% | +3.9% |
| GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 1 | 74.6% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223532 | OSCILLATOR MASTER BOARD, OSCILLATORS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHANG, JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898770 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR, AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 56d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223532 | OSCILLATOR MASTER BOARD, OSCILLATORS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHANG, JOSEPH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 17898770 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR, AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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