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
Bad Cat Holdings LLC is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Prosecution involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. This suggests a highly targeted prosecution strategy focused on semiconductor or optics innovations.
QIN, JIANCHUN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, accounting for the company's total pending office action count. This centralized arrangement means that the company's current patenting success is directly linked to the decisions of this individual examiner.
Practitioners should note that the lack of examiner diversity simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of each interaction with the examiner. The technology area's alignment with the assigned art unit indicates that the application is being reviewed by experts in semiconductor technology. A successful outcome will depend on providing clear, technically sound arguments that satisfy the specific requirements of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIN, JIANCHUN | 1 | 69.2% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326254 | AUDIO SIGNAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | QIN, JIANCHUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326254 | AUDIO SIGNAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | QIN, JIANCHUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18326254 | AUDIO SIGNAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | QIN, JIANCHUN | 2837 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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