Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Farmsense Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MAUPIN, HUGH H, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated point of engagement with the patent office at this time. This focus means that the company's current patent efforts are being evaluated by a specific individual within a technical classification.
For a practitioner, having 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the coordination of prosecution strategy. There is no need to reconcile different examiner styles or art unit standards across the portfolio. The entire pending workload for Farmsense Inc. is represented by this 1 action, making the interaction with MAUPIN, HUGH H the primary focus of their current semiconductor and optics patent activity. This concentration ensures that all current efforts are directed towards a point of review within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.5% | +6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187527 | PEST DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MAUPIN, HUGH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19187527 | PEST DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFarmsense Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hugh H Maupin has the most, with 1 of Farmsense Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
