Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Em Microelectronic-Marin SA has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. Both of these 2 actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the current workload. However, the actions are assigned to different examiners, requiring separate negotiation strategies for each file. FLORES, ROBERTO W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES, ROBERTO W | 1 | 49.7% | +13.9% |
| CHOI, SEUNG HO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046610 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT FOR GENERATING A REFERENCE CURRENT USING TRANSISTORS IN THE WEAK INVERSION REGION OF OPERATION AND COMPRISING A TRIMMED RESISTOR | CHOI, SEUNG HO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19324398 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPUTER MOUSE WITH IMPROVED TRACKING AND SURFACE CLASSIFICATION MANAGEMENT | FLORES, ROBERTO W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19324398 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPUTER MOUSE WITH IMPROVED TRACKING AND SURFACE CLASSIFICATION MANAGEMENT | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19046610 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT FOR GENERATING A REFERENCE CURRENT USING TRANSISTORS IN THE WEAK INVERSION REGION OF OPERATION AND COMPRISING A TRIMMED RESISTOR | CHOI, SEUNG HO | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
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