Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Albert Le Floch has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to SIPES, JOHN CURTIS, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The current prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific and singular focus for the active patent matter.
Having 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the entire active portfolio is subject to the review of a single individual. For the practitioner, this simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there is only 1 set of examiner preferences to consider. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area can be complex, but the concentration in 1 art unit allows for a very targeted technical argument.
This profile, with 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, represents a very lean prosecution effort. The company's current success at the USPTO is tied to the outcome of this 1 matter handled by SIPES, JOHN CURTIS. While the portfolio is not broad, the focus on a single art unit ensures that the prosecution resources are not spread thin across different technical divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 78.0% | +19.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872691 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING MAXWELL SPOT CENTROID ORIENTATIONS, PARTICULARLY IN PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872691 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING MAXWELL SPOT CENTROID ORIENTATIONS, PARTICULARLY IN PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872691 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING MAXWELL SPOT CENTROID ORIENTATIONS, PARTICULARLY IN PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAlbert Le Floch has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Curtis Sipes has the most, with 1 of Albert Le Floch's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
