Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Egis Technology Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that each of the 3 pending office actions is handled by a different examiner, though some examiners likely share an art unit given the total of 2 distinct art units.
Practitioners must manage 3 different examiner relationships while navigating the standards of 2 separate art units. This structure suggests some technical overlap in the portfolio's filings, but the individual prosecution paths remain distinct under the 3 different examiners. Because no 1 examiner manages more than 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is spread across multiple personnel. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and the broader policies of the shared art unit. This diversity in personnel suggests that the 3 pending office actions may involve different facets of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 1 | 85.6% | +17.7% |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.0% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18166371 | HETEROGENEOUSLY SUBSTRATE-BONDED OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 30d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18166371 | HETEROGENEOUSLY SUBSTRATE-BONDED OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 30d overdue |
| 17886448 | Optical Sensor, Optical Distance Sensing Module and Fabricating Method Thereof | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 12d |
| 18172335 | DISTANCE SENSING MODULE | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18172335 | DISTANCE SENSING MODULE | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18166371 | HETEROGENEOUSLY SUBSTRATE-BONDED OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17886448 | Optical Sensor, Optical Distance Sensing Module and Fabricating Method Thereof | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
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