Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Copperweld Bimetallics LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHAU N NGUYEN, and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending action suggests a very targeted approach to their current patent filings in the optics and circuits field.
CHAU N NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling the 1 pending matter. With only a single examiner and art unit involved, the company's prosecution activity is highly centralized. This relationship between the action and the examiner means that the outcome is currently tied to a single individual's interpretation of the claims. The focus within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is likely specialized within a specific sub-sector of Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009808 | Ground Cable with Visual Indicator | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009808 | Ground Cable with Visual Indicator | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2841 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCopperweld Bimetallics LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chau N Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Copperweld Bimetallics LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
