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
Aoi Electronics Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This pending matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical concentration for the company's active prosecution. The presence of only 1 active case in this specific technology sector suggests a highly targeted approach to its current intellectual property filings.
The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, which limits the breadth of examiner interactions the company must navigate at this time. TSO, STANLEY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner's workload represents the entirety of the company's pending actions identified in the data, meaning all current feedback from the patent office originates from a single source.
For practitioners, the presence of the pending office action under 1 distinct examiner in 1 art unit suggests a streamlined communication path. The specific focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics defines the current regulatory landscape for the firm's intellectual property efforts. Navigating this active action successfully is the primary hurdle for the company's active patenting strategy in this technical field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSO, STANLEY | 1 | 75.5% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845879 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845879 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845879 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | 2847 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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