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
C&M Oilfield Rentals LLC currently oversees a patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a concentrated prosecution pipeline. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring that the company's interactions with the USPTO are handled by a single point of review.
The prosecution activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the portfolio's technical subject matter falls under a specific regulatory group. SONG, ZHENG B is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This individual handles the active examination workload, creating a direct relationship between the applicant and this specific examiner.
For a practitioner, this data reflects a portfolio with minimal examiner variety. The fact that 1 examiner is responsible for 1 pending action means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends on the feedback from SONG, ZHENG B. This structure allows for a strategy tailored to the preferences of the assigned examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, ZHENG B | 1 | 70.1% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18187423 | ELEVATED STRUCTURE-MOUNTED LIGHTING SYSTEM | SONG, ZHENG B | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18187423 | ELEVATED STRUCTURE-MOUNTED LIGHTING SYSTEM | SONG, ZHENG B | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialC&M Oilfield Rentals LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Zheng B Song has the most, with 1 of C&M Oilfield Rentals LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.