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
Che-Motor AG currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This 1 active case represents the company's current engagement with the USPTO as reflected in the provided figures. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics indicates that the company's intellectual property is situated in a specialized technical field.
The data shows that the portfolio's prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. MULLINS, BURTON S is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This level of concentration means that the practitioner's strategy must be specifically tailored to the feedback and historical patterns of this 1 examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the application has been classified into a specific technical niche, which can lead to a more focused examination process. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the administrative complexity of the portfolio is minimal. Practitioners can focus on the requirements of MULLINS, BURTON S to move this 1 matter toward a resolution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLINS, BURTON S | 1 | 68.8% | +1.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282807 | RING CYLINDRICAL CASING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RING CYLINDRICAL CASING OF A ROTATING ELECTROMECHANICAL APPARATUS | MULLINS, BURTON S | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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