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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coast Cutlery Co. is currently navigating the patent prosecution process within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio contains 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This single active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very narrow and specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts in this technical field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NEGRON, ISMAEL, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this individual is the only examiner associated with the company's active files, the prosecution strategy is entirely concentrated on this single point of contact. This allows for a highly specialized response strategy that does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors or different art unit standards.
With only 1 pending office action, the administrative complexity of the portfolio is low. The company can dedicate significant attention to the specific requirements of NEGRON, ISMAEL and the 1 distinct art unit involved. This concentration of resources on one examiner and one pending action suggests that the outcome of this specific matter will have a significant impact on the company's immediate standing in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEGRON, ISMAEL | 1 | 73.5% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19440519 | SWITCH FOR FIREARM-MOUNTED LIGHT | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19440519 | SWITCH FOR FIREARM-MOUNTED LIGHT | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19440519 | SWITCH FOR FIREARM-MOUNTED LIGHT | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
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