Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bvw Holding AG is managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates some technical variety within the company's current semiconductor and optics filings. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a moderately diversified prosecution strategy for the company's 3 pending office actions.
The workload is distributed evenly among the examiners, with the busiest examiner, MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W, handling 1 pending office action. This means that each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the 3 pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's research and development efforts are being evaluated across multiple specialized examination groups. This structure provides the company with a variety of examiner perspectives, reducing the risk associated with a single point of failure in the prosecution process and allowing for a more robust intellectual property strategy across the 2 distinct art units.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 1 | 81.3% | +25.6% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LOVE, TREVOR M | 1 | 43.0% | +26.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624992 | Two-Phase Adhesive Nonstandard COSA Devices | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
| 18623287 | Tissue Scaffold with Patterned Microstructure | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
| 16863775 | MULTIPHASE GEL | LOVE, TREVOR M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624992 | Two-Phase Adhesive Nonstandard COSA Devices | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
| 16863775 | MULTIPHASE GEL | LOVE, TREVOR M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18624992 | Two-Phase Adhesive Nonstandard COSA Devices | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18623287 | Tissue Scaffold with Patterned Microstructure | FLORES, ADRIAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 16863775 | MULTIPHASE GEL | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2020 |
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