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
Bruker Technologies Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts in the semiconductor field. The 1 pending office action serves as the primary point of engagement between the company and the patent office at this time.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HOON K SONG, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is highly centralized. This allows for a direct and focused interaction with the patent office regarding the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can tailor their strategy specifically to the examiner and art unit assigned to this semiconductor application. Managing only 1 distinct examiner for the current active portfolio allows for a highly specialized and consistent prosecution approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, HOON K | 1 | 86.3% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783482 | Small-Angle X-Ray Scatterometry | SONG, HOON K | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783482 | Small-Angle X-Ray Scatterometry | SONG, HOON K | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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