Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
DENSO WAVE Incorporated currently has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a 1 to 1 ratio where each active case is handled by a different person. This distribution requires the company to address 4 different examiner styles for its 4 pending matters. HAUPT, KRISTY A is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The 4 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which means the company's semiconductor technology is being reviewed by 2 different technical groups at the USPTO. With 4 distinct examiners and 2 art units, the prosecution landscape is relatively diverse for a small number of actions. Since HAUPT, KRISTY A only handles 1 pending action, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the specific requirements of 2 art units and the individual preferences of 4 different examiners to successfully advance these 4 pending office actions. This requires a strategy that balances the standards of 2 art units with 4 unique examiner perspectives.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAUPT, KRISTY A | 1 | 87.8% | +11.2% |
| BROWN, MICHAEL J | 1 | 87.9% | +8.8% |
| PENDLETON, DIONNE | 1 | 69.8% | +15.7% |
| ST CYR, DANIEL | 1 | 81.3% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18760282 | AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROLLER | BROWN, MICHAEL J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19150235 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING DEVICE, AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING METHOD | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
| 18284460 | CHARGING SYSTEM | ST CYR, DANIEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19150235 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING DEVICE, AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING METHOD | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
| 18683167 | INFORMATION READING APPARATUS | PENDLETON, DIONNE | — |
| 18284460 | CHARGING SYSTEM | ST CYR, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19150235 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING DEVICE, AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE READING METHOD | HAUPT, KRISTY A | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 18760282 | AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROLLER | BROWN, MICHAEL J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18683167 | INFORMATION READING APPARATUS | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18284460 | CHARGING SYSTEM | ST CYR, DANIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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