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
Arol S P A is dealing with 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active case is located in 1 distinct art unit, showing a specific technical classification for the company's current work. This focused placement in 1 art unit suggests that the company's immediate patent interests are directed toward a particular semiconductor or optical application.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PARCO JR, RUBEN C, who is overseeing the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is tied to this single examiner's review. This concentration under PARCO JR, RUBEN C allows the applicant to focus its legal arguments on the specific requirements of 1 individual examiner.
With 1 pending office action currently active, the company's immediate patenting progress depends on the resolution of this 1 matter. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides a singular administrative context for the review of these semiconductor-related claims. Practitioners should prioritize the specific feedback from the 1 assigned examiner to ensure the application moves efficiently through the prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARCO JR, RUBEN C | 1 | 46.0% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570181 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT CAPPING TESTS | PARCO JR, RUBEN C | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570181 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT CAPPING TESTS | PARCO JR, RUBEN C | 2853 | §112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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