Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Domino UK Limited is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 2 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates a diversified approach to prosecution. The workload is also spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter spans different specialized niches within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is VO, ANH T N, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has total control over the company's current patent pipeline within the 2 distinct art units.
For patent practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions requires managing different individual preferences. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to VO, ANH T N represents a portion of the total pending volume. This Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio benefits from having multiple points of contact at the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, ANH T N | 1 | 90.0% | +4.6% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579012 | PRINT HEAD INK SUPPLY BOOST | VO, ANH T N | 9d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17909741 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINTING | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579012 | PRINT HEAD INK SUPPLY BOOST | VO, ANH T N | 2853 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17909741 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINTING | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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