Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dionex Softron GmbH maintains a portfolio with 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of oversight for the company's current filings. The prosecution work spans 5 distinct art units, suggesting that the underlying technologies involve diverse technical classifications within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is SINGER, DAVID L, who handles 1 pending office action. Because the total of 6 pending office actions is divided among 6 examiners, no single individual carries a disproportionate share of the workload. This parity across the 5 distinct art units means that practitioners must coordinate across multiple examination groups to maintain consistency in the company's patent strategy. The high number of 6 distinct examiners relative to the 6 pending office actions highlights a decentralized prosecution environment where each matter is being evaluated independently by a different technical expert.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGER, DAVID L | 1 | 69.1% | +42.2% |
| LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 68.9% | +16.4% |
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.2% | +13.4% |
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 66.9% | +25.4% |
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17929940 | NEEDLE FOR USE IN ANALYTICAL APPLICATION | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18151162 | Chromatography Operational Status Analysis | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 91d overdue |
| 17929083 | MIXING ASSEMBLY | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| 17521677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING FLUIDIC NETWORKS | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18151162 | Chromatography Operational Status Analysis | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 91d overdue |
| 18327833 | ROTARY FOR ROTARY SHEAR VALVE | SINGER, DAVID L | — |
| 17929940 | NEEDLE FOR USE IN ANALYTICAL APPLICATION | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| 17929083 | MIXING ASSEMBLY | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| 17580880 | VALVE ASSEMBLY | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| 17521677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING FLUIDIC NETWORKS | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 2 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18327833 | ROTARY FOR ROTARY SHEAR VALVE | SINGER, DAVID L | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18151162 | Chromatography Operational Status Analysis | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1773 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17929940 | NEEDLE FOR USE IN ANALYTICAL APPLICATION | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
| 17929083 | MIXING ASSEMBLY | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17580880 | VALVE ASSEMBLY | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2022 |
| 17521677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING FLUIDIC NETWORKS | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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