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
David Wittmeier maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a distinct examiner. This examiner, ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA, is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action under review.
The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused application of semiconductor and circuit principles. With a distinct examiner and the pending office action, the portfolio's current patent office interaction is highly centralized. This means the outcome for the pending office action depends entirely on the feedback from ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA within that specific art unit.
For practitioners, this data indicates a low volume of active prosecution for David Wittmeier at this time. The pending matter requires a targeted approach to satisfy the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner involved. Because there are no other pending actions or examiners, the current strategy is focused solely on the pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the immediate patent goals are tied to a single review process. Reviewing the examiner's history within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics space can help anticipate potential hurdles. Monitoring the status of the pending office action is vital for timely adjustments to the broader intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 71.3% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692357 | HINGED MODULAR SPLICE TRAY SYSTEMS FOR CLOSURES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692357 | HINGED MODULAR SPLICE TRAY SYSTEMS FOR CLOSURES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692357 | HINGED MODULAR SPLICE TRAY SYSTEMS FOR CLOSURES | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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