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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Exciting Technology LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This pending action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This data points to a focused prosecution phase where the company's current patent application is being evaluated by a single technical specialist within a specific group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is NIGAM, NATASHA, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, NIGAM, NATASHA manages the entirety of the company's current examination activity. For those managing this portfolio, the prosecution strategy must be closely aligned with the specific requirements and examination style of this one examiner. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means there are no alternative perspectives currently influencing the company's pending patent matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17860846 | HIGH CAPABILITY, MULTI-BEAM, DECENTERED LENS LIGHT BEAM STEERING | NIGAM, NATASHA | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17860846 | HIGH CAPABILITY, MULTI-BEAM, DECENTERED LENS LIGHT BEAM STEERING | NIGAM, NATASHA | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17860846 | HIGH CAPABILITY, MULTI-BEAM, DECENTERED LENS LIGHT BEAM STEERING | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
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