Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Direct Electron LP manages a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. PARK, SAMUEL is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit.
Practitioners must prepare for 2 distinct prosecution environments, each with its own examiner and art unit standards. The presence of 2 distinct examiners across 2 art units indicates that the portfolio's current filings are technically diverse within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Because the 2 pending office actions are split, there is no concentration of workload that would allow for a unified prosecution strategy. Instead, each matter must be addressed according to the specific tendencies of the assigned examiner. The 2 examiners for 2 pending actions suggests that the portfolio is currently facing individualized challenges across different technical sub-sectors.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, SAMUEL | 1 | 84.6% | +24.0% |
| GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 1 | 68.8% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042505 | HIGH-DQE DIRECT DETECTION IMAGE SENSOR FOR ELECTRONS WITH 40 - 120 KEV ENERGY | PARK, SAMUEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17905128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENERGY SELECTIVE DIRECT ELECTRON IMAGING | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042505 | HIGH-DQE DIRECT DETECTION IMAGE SENSOR FOR ELECTRONS WITH 40 - 120 KEV ENERGY | PARK, SAMUEL | — |
| 17905128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENERGY SELECTIVE DIRECT ELECTRON IMAGING | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18042505 | HIGH-DQE DIRECT DETECTION IMAGE SENSOR FOR ELECTRONS WITH 40 - 120 KEV ENERGY | PARK, SAMUEL | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17905128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENERGY SELECTIVE DIRECT ELECTRON IMAGING | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDirect Electron LP has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Samuel Park has the most, with 1 of Direct Electron LP's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
