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
Electric Torque Machines Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is on a specific innovation within the semiconductor or optics field. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company is engaging with a specialized group of examiners who are experts in this particular technological area.
STOUT, RILEY OWEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the 1 pending office action. All current prosecution for the company is consolidated under this single examiner, with no other pending matters being reviewed by other USPTO staff. Since the busiest examiner is only managing 1 pending office action, the portfolio is currently in a low-volume state. This allows for a very direct and focused prosecution effort, though it also means the company's immediate patent prospects depend on this examiner's review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692151 | ELECTRIC MOTOR | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692151 | ELECTRIC MOTOR | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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