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
Electric Era Technologies Inc. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with a patent portfolio that currently includes 1 pending office action. This workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is directed toward a specific niche within the semiconductor or optics fields.
LIN, ARIC is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the only examiner currently engaged with the company's pending matters, their role is pivotal to the portfolio's immediate advancement. The technical expertise and examination habits of LIN, ARIC will be the most influential factors in determining the outcome of the current prosecution efforts.
For practitioners, the focus on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector provides an opportunity for a highly tailored prosecution strategy. However, the reliance on 1 pending office action means that each step in the process carries significant weight. Understanding the specific nuances of the assigned art unit and the previous decisions of LIN, ARIC will be essential for successfully navigating the pending action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, ARIC | 1 | 59.8% | +12.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2851 | 1 |
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