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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alphasense Limited is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active prosecution is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is POTHEN, FEBA, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The alignment between the total pending office actions and the workload of POTHEN, FEBA indicates that all current prosecution efforts are concentrated under a single individual.
For a company operating in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, this suggests a very specific point of engagement with the patent office. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the portfolio's current activity is not spread across multiple technical examination groups. Practitioners should note that the entire pending workload is subject to the specific examination style of POTHEN, FEBA, as there are no other examiners or art units involved in the current pending actions. This concentration of resources may lead to a more predictable prosecution timeline but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives within the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.1% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633985 | PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633985 | PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18633985 | PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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