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
Checkmain Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN, who serves as the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is highly concentrated, with only a solitary distinct examiner and a lone distinct art unit involved in the current filings. This specific administrative group represents the technical niche where the company is seeking patent protection. The active office action is the only matter the company has with the USPTO.
AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN is responsible for 1 pending office action, which constitutes the entirety of the company's current workload. With only one distinct examiner, the company can focus its resources on a single set of examiner expectations. The active case is the only matter currently being prosecuted, making it the primary focus of the company's intellectual property strategy. Because there is only a single distinct art unit and one distinct examiner, the prosecution environment is straightforward and lacks the administrative complexity of portfolios spread across multiple departments. This 1 pending office action will determine the company's immediate success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 80.6% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680647 | DEVICE FOR CHECKING SURGE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 15d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680647 | DEVICE FOR CHECKING SURGE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680647 | DEVICE FOR CHECKING SURGE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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