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
Currentdesign Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's active prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. SMITH, COURTNEY L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the current legal activity is highly localized within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The outcome of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the review by SMITH, COURTNEY L, who holds the full current workload for the company's pending matters. For a practitioner, this means that the 1 busiest examiner pending action is the sole focus of the current prosecution cycle. Navigating the specific requirements of SMITH, COURTNEY L is critical, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative paths for portfolio growth. The strategy must be precise to ensure that this single matter advances successfully through the 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct examiner will determine the immediate results.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, COURTNEY L | 1 | 85.5% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287994 | MODULAR INTERCONNECTABLE HOUSING STRUCTURES AND BUILT STRUCTURES FORMED THEREFROM | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 25d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287994 | MODULAR INTERCONNECTABLE HOUSING STRUCTURES AND BUILT STRUCTURES FORMED THEREFROM | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287994 | MODULAR INTERCONNECTABLE HOUSING STRUCTURES AND BUILT STRUCTURES FORMED THEREFROM | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2835 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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