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
C-Media Electronics Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in a distinct art unit, representing a focused prosecution profile. For a practitioner, this means that the entire pending portfolio is subject to the specific examination standards of the assigned group. The pending office action is the only current point of interaction with the USPTO for this company in the semiconductor field.
JACKSON, LAKAISHA is the busiest examiner, currently managing the pending office action. The reliance on a single examiner and art unit means that the outcome of the current pending portfolio depends on a single point of review. JACKSON, LAKAISHA holds the responsibility for the matter, and her individual history will be the primary factor in the prosecution's success. With only a single examiner involved, there is no opportunity to compare examination styles across the current portfolio. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the art unit to resolve the pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 1 | 85.4% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733778 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE HAVING AUTOMATIC SWITCHING MECHANISM | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733778 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE HAVING AUTOMATIC SWITCHING MECHANISM | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733778 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE HAVING AUTOMATIC SWITCHING MECHANISM | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
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