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
Exchange Box LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit. The focus of the portfolio into a single art unit indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated in a specific technical domain.
Matthew Mikels is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved in the company's current pending matters, Mikels serves as the primary point of contact for the prosecution of this case. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 reflects the singular nature of the company's current activity at the USPTO.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit handling the 1 pending office action, the prosecution profile is highly centralized. This lack of examiner variety may allow for a more predictable interaction, as there are no competing matters or different art unit standards to navigate. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the requirements of the 1 art unit and the specific preferences of Matthew Mikels.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIKELS, MATTHEW | 1 | 81.1% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19332219 | LOCKER SYSTEM | MIKELS, MATTHEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19332219 | LOCKER SYSTEM | MIKELS, MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19332219 | LOCKER SYSTEM | MIKELS, MATTHEW | 2876 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
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