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
Ccqcc Corp. has 1 pending office action currently active within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FERRELL, CARTER W, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for this pending matter.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate prosecution efforts are concentrated on a single point of contact at the patent office. FERRELL, CARTER W represents the sole examiner the company must interface with for this 1 pending action. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is specialized enough to fall under a single administrative group. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's history and the 1 art unit's typical practices to resolve this single outstanding action efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERRELL, CARTER W | 1 | 62.3% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520547 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO CALIBRATE A LABORATORY ANALYZER | FERRELL, CARTER W | 29d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520547 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO CALIBRATE A LABORATORY ANALYZER | FERRELL, CARTER W | 29d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520547 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO CALIBRATE A LABORATORY ANALYZER | FERRELL, CARTER W | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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