Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Craif Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being handled independently by different personnel, which prevents any single examiner's tendencies from dominating the company's current prosecution experience. The distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests a varied technical scope within the semiconductor field, requiring the company to address different examination standards and unit-specific trends.
SHABMAN, MARK A is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, reflecting a portfolio where each pending matter is handled by a different individual. Because the 3 pending office actions are divided among 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple parallel prosecution timelines. This distributed workload can provide the applicant with broader exposure to different examiner perspectives, though it also requires coordinating responses across three different art units and examiners simultaneously.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.0% | +13.1% |
| MESFIN, MATTHEWOS | 1 | — | — |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 34.2% | +35.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753587 | DEVICE TO BE USED FOR CAPTURING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES, AND PRESERVATION METHOD AND TRANSPORT METHOD FOR EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685689 | NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED CLASSIFIER | MESFIN, MATTHEWOS | — |
| 18248781 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING LIKELIHOOD OF OBSERVATION VALUE AND PROGRAM | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753587 | DEVICE TO BE USED FOR CAPTURING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES, AND PRESERVATION METHOD AND TRANSPORT METHOD FOR EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| 18248781 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING LIKELIHOOD OF OBSERVATION VALUE AND PROGRAM | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18753587 | DEVICE TO BE USED FOR CAPTURING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES, AND PRESERVATION METHOD AND TRANSPORT METHOD FOR EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18685689 | NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED CLASSIFIER | MESFIN, MATTHEWOS | 2145 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18248781 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING LIKELIHOOD OF OBSERVATION VALUE AND PROGRAM | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCraif Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mark A Shabman has the most, with 1 of Craif Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
