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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Das-Nano Tech S L has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Michael P Lapage, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and concentrated area of patent examination for the company's current filings.
The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a small or highly selective prosecution footprint at this stage. Because the entire pending portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, the company's success is tied to the review of Michael P Lapage. This concentration simplifies the administrative burden of prosecution but places significant weight on a single examiner's perspective. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past rulings of this examiner to optimize their response 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.6% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909445 | CONTACTLESS DETERMINING A PHYSICAL FEATURE OF A TARGET ITEM | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909445 | CONTACTLESS DETERMINING A PHYSICAL FEATURE OF A TARGET ITEM | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909445 | CONTACTLESS DETERMINING A PHYSICAL FEATURE OF A TARGET ITEM | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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