Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fei Deutschland GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the pending portfolio rests on a single point of contact within the USPTO, requiring a tailored approach to that specific examiner's preferences and the art unit's internal trends.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ABDUR, RAHMAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this individual handles the entirety of the company's current workload, the relationship with this specific examiner is the primary factor in their immediate prosecution success. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with the single art unit suggests that the underlying technology is categorized within a narrow technical niche, which may simplify the monitoring of relevant prior art and examiner behavior.
Strategic planning for Fei Deutschland GmbH should prioritize the specific procedural history and allowance rates associated with ABDUR, RAHMAN. Since there are no other examiners or art units involved, there is no internal baseline for comparing prosecution speed or difficulty across different segments of the portfolio. The focus remains entirely on navigating the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner to resolve the current active matter efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.2% | +16.3% |
| ABDUR, RAHMAN | 1 | 74.0% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356979 | MULTI-SPOT CONFOCAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH SPECTRAL MULTIPLEXING | LEE, SHUN K | 56d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356979 | MULTI-SPOT CONFOCAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH SPECTRAL MULTIPLEXING | LEE, SHUN K | 56d |
| 17619902 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMMERSION MEDIA APPLICATION AND LENS CLEANING | ABDUR, RAHMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18356979 | MULTI-SPOT CONFOCAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH SPECTRAL MULTIPLEXING | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 17619902 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMMERSION MEDIA APPLICATION AND LENS CLEANING | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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