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
Bourns KK has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN, in a distinct art unit. SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action currently assigned.
This represents a highly focused prosecution effort where all current activity is concentrated under one individual and one art unit. Practitioners should focus their strategy for the pending office action on the specific tendencies of SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN. The presence of a single art unit suggests a specific technical focus within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. This centralized structure provides a clear path for the resolution of the 1 pending action. The alignment of the busiest examiner's workload with the total pending actions ensures a clear point of contact within the patent office. This concentration allows for a highly targeted approach to the pending office action. The lack of multiple examiners or art units minimizes the complexity of managing the company's current patent interests. By focusing on the individual review style of the assigned examiner, the company can better anticipate procedural hurdles.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 1 | 80.4% | +26.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708571 | Breaker, Safety circuit and Secondary battery pack | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708571 | Breaker, Safety circuit and Secondary battery pack | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708571 | Breaker, Safety circuit and Secondary battery pack | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 2835 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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