Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
B&R Industrial Automation GmbH has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for 1 case. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, showing technical concentration despite the examiner variety. This arrangement requires the company to coordinate its semiconductor prosecution across 3 separate individual reviewers.
CAI, PHUONG HAU is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the other 2 distinct examiners. With 3 pending office actions in total, the company must manage 3 separate examination processes across 2 distinct art units, requiring a coordinated approach to their technical disclosures. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the innovations are being reviewed by closely related technical groups within the patent office.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners for only 3 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner-level overlap. CAI, PHUONG HAU handles 1 pending office action, representing a portion of the current workload. Because the portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, practitioners should look for potential commonalities in the examination styles of these units. Managing 3 pending office actions in this manner ensures that the company's semiconductor strategy is tested against 3 different examiner perspectives.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI, PHUONG HAU | 1 | 76.9% | +26.4% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
| LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 1 | 76.5% | +9.6% |
| AMRANY, ADI | 1 | 56.2% | +18.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567986 | METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE ENERGY TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A PRIMARY AND A SECONDARY PART OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM | AMRANY, ADI | 7d |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| 18755171 | STANDSTILL CONTROL WITH MANIPULATED VARIABLE FEEDFORWARD | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567986 | METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE ENERGY TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A PRIMARY AND A SECONDARY PART OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM | AMRANY, ADI | 7d |
| 18944810 | DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A DIGITAL CAMERA OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | CAI, PHUONG HAU | — |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2846 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944810 | DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A DIGITAL CAMERA OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | CAI, PHUONG HAU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18755171 | STANDSTILL CONTROL WITH MANIPULATED VARIABLE FEEDFORWARD | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 2846 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18567986 | METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE ENERGY TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A PRIMARY AND A SECONDARY PART OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM | AMRANY, ADI | 2836 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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