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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black Semiconductor GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution footprint at this stage. For a company patent portfolio, this level of focus suggests that current legal efforts are centralized within a specific technical niche rather than distributed across multiple patent office divisions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner holds the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. Practitioners should note that the outcome of this matter will define the portfolio's immediate success rate in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
The relationship between the distinct examiner and the pending workload ensures that there is no overlap or conflicting examiner styles to navigate simultaneously. However, the reliance on a single distinct art unit means the company's current strategy is subject to the specific examination trends of that division. Future filings may determine if the portfolio expands beyond this initial concentration.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 1 | 60.6% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17796369 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17796369 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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