Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elka International Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, showing examiner diversity for the portfolio size. Furthermore, the matters are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's semiconductor and optics filings cover various technical sub-specialties.
BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This implies that each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling a separate matter among the 3 pending office actions. For the company, this means prosecution is decentralized, requiring coordination across 3 distinct art units and different examiner personalities. The breadth of 3 distinct art units for the pending office actions highlights a diverse intellectual property strategy within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 67.9% | +11.8% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| PATEL, HARSHAD C | 1 | 82.8% | +8.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18198086 | TRANSMISSION CABLE AND TERMINAL CONNECTOR | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 14d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588239 | CORE WIRE SET AND TRANSMISSION CABLE THEREOF | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 9d overdue |
| 18962167 | TRANSMISSION LINE DEVICE, LUMINOUS TRANSMISSION LINE SYSTEM AND LIGHT CONTROL SIGNAL EXTENDING INTERFACE | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962167 | TRANSMISSION LINE DEVICE, LUMINOUS TRANSMISSION LINE SYSTEM AND LIGHT CONTROL SIGNAL EXTENDING INTERFACE | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18588239 | CORE WIRE SET AND TRANSMISSION CABLE THEREOF | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2841 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18198086 | TRANSMISSION CABLE AND TERMINAL CONNECTOR | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 2831 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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