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
Chint Electric Corporation currently faces 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner, VORTMAN, ANATOLY, who is the busiest examiner with a pending count of 1. The portfolio's current active presence is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope.
With minimal pending activity, the company's current engagement with the patent office is highly focused. The assignment of the matter to VORTMAN, ANATOLY means that the prosecution outcome is tied to a single individual's review. The focus on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field indicates a narrow technical scope for the 1 pending office action. This simplicity in the portfolio allows for a targeted legal strategy.
Practitioners managing this portfolio should note that the entire current workload consists of 1 pending office action. This allows for a deep dive into the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Because the assigned examiner is the only official reviewing the portfolio, the prosecution team can focus on building a consistent dialogue. The lack of other pending actions or examiners means there are no competing priorities within the company's current patent office activity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 1 | 70.0% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699950 | SMART OUTDOOR SWITCHGEAR FOR CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION OF MEDIUM-VOLTAGE MICROGRID | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 24d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699950 | SMART OUTDOOR SWITCHGEAR FOR CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION OF MEDIUM-VOLTAGE MICROGRID | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
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