Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bellabeat Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company's filings fall under the same administrative unit, they are being reviewed by different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TIMILSINA, SHARAD, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending actions, the workload is split. This 1 to 1 ratio of examiners to actions requires the company to satisfy the requirements of 2 different officials within the same art unit. The 2 pending office actions represent the total current prosecution activity for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNOX, KALERIA | 1 | 68.2% | +25.3% |
| TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 1 | 74.4% | +11.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511103 | SMART HYBRID WATCH | KNOX, KALERIA | 5d overdue |
| 18511129 | WEARABLE SMART JEWELRY | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 30d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511103 | SMART HYBRID WATCH | KNOX, KALERIA | 5d overdue |
| 18511129 | WEARABLE SMART JEWELRY | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18511103 | SMART HYBRID WATCH | KNOX, KALERIA | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18511129 | WEARABLE SMART JEWELRY | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 2857 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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