Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Dongguan Littelfuse Electronics Company Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and different distinct art units, with no overlap in personnel. This indicates that the active matters are being treated as technically distinct and are proceeding through the USPTO on separate tracks.
PENCE, JETHRO M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents a portion of the company's current pending workload, with the other half assigned to a different examiner in a separate art unit. For a portfolio with 2 pending office actions, having 2 distinct examiners represents the maximum possible level of examiner diversification.
The lack of concentration in examiners suggests that the company's electronic and chemical innovations are being classified into different technical silos. Practitioners must manage each of the 2 pending office actions independently, as there is no shared examiner to provide a common framework for prosecution. This structure requires a tailored approach for each application to address the specific concerns of the individual examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626737 | HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE MASKING PALLET ASSEMBLY FOR ARC SPRAY APPLICATIONS | PENCE, JETHRO M | 29d |
| 18269630 | HIGH POWER PPTC HEATER FOR LOW LIMITING TEMPERATURE OPERATION | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18626737 | HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE MASKING PALLET ASSEMBLY FOR ARC SPRAY APPLICATIONS | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18269630 | HIGH POWER PPTC HEATER FOR LOW LIMITING TEMPERATURE OPERATION | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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