Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dxcover Limited maintains a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, indicating ongoing interaction with the patent office. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing that the workload is not concentrated under a single individual.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH handles a portion of the current pending workload. The remaining pending office action is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio's prosecution.
The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics innovations from Dxcover Limited cover diverse sub-sectors that fall under different administrative groups. Practitioners must navigate the specific procedural nuances of 2 different art units and the individual preferences of 2 separate examiners. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 is the same as the count for the other examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.0% | +20.0% |
| MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1 | 53.5% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17639428 | DISCERNING BRAIN CANCER TYPE | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 11d overdue |
| 18027834 | CONTINUOUS INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17639428 | DISCERNING BRAIN CANCER TYPE | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 11d overdue |
| 18027834 | CONTINUOUS INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18027834 | CONTINUOUS INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 17639428 | DISCERNING BRAIN CANCER TYPE | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1675 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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