Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Center For Advanced Meta-Materials has 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, creating a diverse prosecution landscape. The matters are divided between 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's meta-material innovations fall into 2 primary technical categories.
The busiest examiner, WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y, is handling 1 pending office action. This reflects the distribution of the pending office actions across the 4 distinct examiners. With 2 distinct art units involved, the company must address the specific examination standards of 2 different technical groups while managing separate examiner relationships. The 1 pending action for the busiest examiner shows the even workload distribution.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 1 | 81.3% | +8.7% |
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 1 | 65.0% | +7.0% |
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.6% | +22.4% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836209 | LARGE-AREA TRANSPARENT REFLECTIVE PANEL USING NANOCLUSTERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | — |
| 18718603 | BEAM SPLITTER USING MULTI-REFRACTIVE INDEX LAYER AND DEFECTIVE ELEMENT DETECTING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18093333 | APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING ELEMENT | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 30d overdue |
| 18689530 | ACTIVE RADIATION CONTROL WINDOW | WILKES, ZACHARY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836209 | LARGE-AREA TRANSPARENT REFLECTIVE PANEL USING NANOCLUSTERS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18718603 | BEAM SPLITTER USING MULTI-REFRACTIVE INDEX LAYER AND DEFECTIVE ELEMENT DETECTING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18689530 | ACTIVE RADIATION CONTROL WINDOW | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18093333 | APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING ELEMENT | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
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