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
Belkin International Inc. operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently under review. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. DIMARY S LOPEZ CRUZ is the busiest examiner for Belkin International Inc., overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active prosecution.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action reflects a concentrated point of engagement with the patent office. For practitioners, this indicates that the entirety of the company's current strategy in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is subject to the review of DIMARY S LOPEZ CRUZ. This concentration suggests that the technology being patented is specialized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will determine the immediate direction and success of the company's intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ CRUZ, DIMARY S | 1 | 73.0% | -52.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902036 | DEVICE MOUNT APPARATUSES AND METHODS | LOPEZ CRUZ, DIMARY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18902036 | DEVICE MOUNT APPARATUSES AND METHODS | LOPEZ CRUZ, DIMARY S | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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