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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electronic Design & Development Corp. maintains a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for this company. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution landscape for the firm's current applications. This focus suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific patent filing over a broader range of applications.
The data shows that 1 distinct art unit is involved in the current proceedings. HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the portfolio only has 1 pending office action, the 1 examiner and 1 art unit represent the total scope of the company's current active engagement with the patent office. This point of contact allows the company to focus its resources on the specific examination style of HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L within that 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L | 1 | 87.8% | +3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594328 | DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ARRAY | HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594328 | DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ARRAY | HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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