Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cambridge Mechatronics Limited manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical filings. ADAMS, CARL is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending matter. The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property covers multiple specialized sub-sectors within the semiconductor and optics field. This distribution requires the company to manage 3 pending office actions across different technical divisions.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate various examination styles simultaneously. While there are multiple examiners involved, the workload is distributed, as the busiest examiner, ADAMS, CARL, only has 1 busiest examiner pending case. This diversity in examiners and art units requires a coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the 3 pending office actions. The strategy involves managing 3 distinct art units, which may have different internal guidelines. Each of the 3 pending office actions represents a unique point of contact within the patent office for the company's legal team.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, CARL | 1 | 71.8% | +16.4% |
| ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 1 | 75.6% | +21.0% |
| HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 1 | 67.5% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286188 | SMA ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 39d |
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2627 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18286188 | SMA ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 17919034 | CAMERA ASSEMBLY | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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