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
Bakery Systems Inc. operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, creating a focused point of contact for the company's current prosecution needs. The workload is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is concentrated within a specific technical discipline. Practitioners should note that this concentration simplifies the administrative oversight of the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HULS, NATALIE F, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's pending claims. For a practitioner, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio's prosecution depends on the specific requirements and feedback of this 1 examiner. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a highly centralized prosecution status where no other active matters are currently competing for attention or diversifying the company's examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HULS, NATALIE F | 1 | 76.9% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEIGHING DOUGH PORTIONS DURING PROOFING | HULS, NATALIE F | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18231616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEIGHING DOUGH PORTIONS DURING PROOFING | HULS, NATALIE F | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
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