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
Alcatel Submarine Networks manages a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently active for this entity. This single action represents the current focus of the company's interactions with the patent office regarding its semiconductor innovations.
The prosecution of this portfolio is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated within a specific technical niche by a single official. Such a narrow examination footprint means that the company's immediate patenting success depends on the interpretation of one individual within one administrative unit.
LYONS, MICHAEL A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is responsible for the only active review. The practitioner must focus on the specific tendencies of LYONS, MICHAEL A to advance the 1 pending office action currently in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912482 | JOINT FIBER MONITORING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912482 | JOINT FIBER MONITORING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912482 | JOINT FIBER MONITORING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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