Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Climax Foods Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a distributed prosecution landscape. This variety in art units suggests that the company's current filings touch upon different technical sub-specialties within the broader semiconductor field.
CHEN, ALAN S is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This concentration with a single examiner represents the majority of the 3 total pending actions currently active for the portfolio. The remaining action is handled by the second distinct examiner, ensuring that the company's prosecution strategy is split between two primary points of contact. With 2 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate different sets of examination guidelines or technical standards.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, ALAN S | 2 | 91.0% | +6.7% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 14d |
| 18430461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION TO MIMIC TARGET PROPERTIES | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
| 18202174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18430461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION TO MIMIC TARGET PROPERTIES | CHEN, ALAN S | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18202174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION | CHEN, ALAN S | 2125 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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