Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elbit Systems Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each case is being handled independently by different personnel. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent efforts cover diverse technical sub-fields within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The involvement of 2 distinct art units implies that the applications are being reviewed by different specialized groups. The lack of concentration in a single art unit may require the legal team to adapt to different procedural styles.
EDWIN C GUNBERG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The alignment of 2 distinct examiners with 2 distinct art units suggests that the active prosecution spans different specialized groups within the technology area. With 2 pending office actions in total, the company's legal team must coordinate with 2 distinct examiners. This structure ensures that no single examiner's perspective dominates the company's current patent outcomes. Practitioners should focus on the 1 busiest examiner pending action while maintaining a flexible approach for the other distinct 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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 1 | 78.0% | +6.8% |
| BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 1 | 42.7% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEVIATION OF AN OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE FROM A DOCTRINE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEVIATION OF AN OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE FROM A DOCTRINE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18376674 | WAFER SCALE ENHANCED GAIN ELECTRON BOMBARDED CMOS IMAGER | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18143321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A DEVIATION OF AN OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE FROM A DOCTRINE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
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