Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
East Carolina University maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The current prosecution landscape includes 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a highly concentrated examination process where the university's active matter is overseen by 1 individual. The portfolio is currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical scope for the pending application.
DOUMBIA, MOHAMED is the busiest examiner for the university, responsible for 1 pending office action currently on record. Because the university has 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely centralized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the immediate success of the university's efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics space. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with DOUMBIA, MOHAMED as this examiner holds the entirety of the university's pending workload. This singular focus requires a precise response to the examiner's requirements to ensure the advancement of the university's intellectual property.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUMBIA, MOHAMED | 1 | 72.9% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008902 | METHODS OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AND PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF WOUNDS AND BURNS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND RELATED SYSTEMS | DOUMBIA, MOHAMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008902 | METHODS OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AND PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF WOUNDS AND BURNS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND RELATED SYSTEMS | DOUMBIA, MOHAMED | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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