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
Facebook Reality Labs currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working in a single art unit. The concentration of the portfolio in this technical field suggests a focused prosecution strategy for this segment of the company's intellectual property.
KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Having the full workload under a single examiner and art unit allows for a highly centralized prosecution process, though it also means the portfolio's progress is tied to the specific tendencies of this individual examiner.
Practitioners should note that the lack of examiner diversity in this portfolio simplifies communication but increases the impact of any single office action. The alignment of the technology area with the assigned art unit indicates a standard classification of the underlying semiconductor or optics innovations. This structure requires the applicant to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of the assigned examiner to ensure successful prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 1 | 80.5% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039516 | POLARIZATION STATE COMPENSATOR | KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 77d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039516 | POLARIZATION STATE COMPENSATOR | KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18039516 | POLARIZATION STATE COMPENSATOR | KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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