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
Eplant Inc. has 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio, which is categorized under the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused prosecution effort. The matter is currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's current patent activity is concentrated within a specific regulatory environment at the patent office.
JONATHAN M DUNLAP is the busiest examiner for Eplant Inc., overseeing 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total number of pending actions for the company, as all current activity is consolidated under this one examiner. For practitioners, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the specific interpretations and requirements of this examiner within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The presence of this pending action across the art unit suggests a direct approach to its current intellectual property filings. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit under 1 distinct examiner means the company faces a single point of review for its entire pending portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 1 | 76.2% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686366 | SMART DENDROMETERS FOR TRACKING PLANT GROWTH | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686366 | SMART DENDROMETERS FOR TRACKING PLANT GROWTH | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686366 | SMART DENDROMETERS FOR TRACKING PLANT GROWTH | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 2855 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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