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
Carcal Experts currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The matter is currently being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit.
With only that pending office action, the portfolio's immediate USPTO activity is highly focused. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions between SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE and the applicant. This streamlined oversight in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area allows for a direct and singular focus on resolving the 1 pending office action.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE to ensure a successful outcome for the matter. The concentration within that unit suggests a highly specialized technical focus. This singular prosecution path simplifies the management of the company's current patent efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 1 | 77.4% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440022 | PORTABLE CALIBRATION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18440022 | PORTABLE CALIBRATION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCarcal Experts has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anna Josephine Saunders has the most, with 1 of Carcal Experts's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
