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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Datacolor Inc. has 1 pending office action focused in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow distribution of pending matters at the patent office. This concentration implies that the company's current intellectual property strategy is focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
GRAY, SUNGHEE Y is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the total volume of the company's 1 pending office action, meaning the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the interactions with this specific examiner. For the practitioner, understanding the specific preferences and procedural requirements of this 1 distinct examiner is paramount. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are highly targeted, requiring a precise response to maintain the portfolio's momentum.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 1 | 83.2% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344085 | Measurement of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 60d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344085 | Measurement of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18344085 | Measurement of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial