Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Exum Instruments maintains 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of pending actions suggests a focused prosecution phase for the company's current semiconductor and optics portfolio.
The busiest examiner, LOGIE, MICHAEL J, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the total 1 pending office action identified in the data. Practitioners can observe that the entire pending workload is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232747 | OFF-AXIS ION EXTRACTION AND SHIELD GLASS ASSEMBLIES FOR SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18232747 | OFF-AXIS ION EXTRACTION AND SHIELD GLASS ASSEMBLIES FOR SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialExum Instruments has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael J Logie has the most, with 1 of Exum Instruments's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
