Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Curiosis Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but divided prosecution landscape. The workload is spread among the assigned staff, requiring the applicant to monitor multiple channels of communication simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAU, EDMOND C, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total 2 pending actions currently active for the company. Practitioners should note that with 2 distinct art units involved, the technical evaluation criteria are likely to remain consistent across the current filings, even with different personnel assigned.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that while the technology area is unified, individual examiner preferences will dictate the immediate strategy for each application. Monitoring the specific tendencies of LAU, EDMOND C is advisable given their role in 1 of the active matters. A coordinated approach across both 2 distinct art units will help maintain a cohesive patent strategy.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, EDMOND C | 1 | 71.7% | +8.5% |
| RAMDHANIE, BOBBY | 1 | 43.7% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016325 | Cell culture vessel capable of obtaining a clean image by preventing distortion and dew condensation during cell imaging and method for producing same | RAMDHANIE, BOBBY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016325 | Cell culture vessel capable of obtaining a clean image by preventing distortion and dew condensation during cell imaging and method for producing same | RAMDHANIE, BOBBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18910239 | FILTER BLOCK ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL SYSTEM USING THE SAME | LAU, EDMOND C | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18016325 | Cell culture vessel capable of obtaining a clean image by preventing distortion and dew condensation during cell imaging and method for producing same | RAMDHANIE, BOBBY | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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