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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Epitome GmbH currently has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and concentrated prosecution focus, where the applicant's current efforts are directed toward a single technical niche in the semiconductor or optics field. The alignment of 1 pending action with 1 distinct art unit indicates that the applicant's current legal efforts are concentrated within a specific technical sub-discipline.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FABIAN JR, ROBERTO, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since this 1 action is the only pending matter for the applicant, the examiner's individual tendencies and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit will be the sole determinants of the prosecution outcome. This streamlined structure allows the applicant to tailor their response to the specific technical requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area without the distraction of multiple simultaneous filings. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's history to predict the timeline for this 1 pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.6% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834142 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOFILM IN THE ORAL CAVITY | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834142 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOFILM IN THE ORAL CAVITY | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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