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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Boom Technology Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while two different individuals are reviewing the applications, they both belong to the same department at the USPTO.
TAN, RICHARD is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company's filings are being evaluated by different officials within the same Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technical group.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates a consistent technical classification for the company's current patent activity. Even with 2 distinct examiners, the shared art unit may lead to a more uniform examination experience compared to portfolios spread across multiple departments. Practitioners should monitor both cases for potential overlaps in examiner reasoning within this single art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAN, RICHARD | 1 | 79.5% | +23.0% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.4% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19252994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING GROUND POWER UNITS | TAN, RICHARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19252994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING GROUND POWER UNITS | TAN, RICHARD | — |
| 19063007 | PARALLEL POWER SOURCE FOR AIRCRAFT | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING GROUND POWER UNITS | TAN, RICHARD | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19063007 | PARALLEL POWER SOURCE FOR AIRCRAFT | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
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