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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Ggmbh Leibniz-Institut Für Höchstfrequenztechnik currently faces 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. Prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the current patenting activity is reviewed by a single technical group at the patent office.
Because the portfolio has 1 pending office action, the prosecution risk is centralized under MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this 1 examiner and the procedural norms of the 1 art unit involved. This concentration eliminates the need to reconcile different examiner styles across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings. The presence of 1 pending action and 1 examiner indicates a focused prosecution phase where the outcome of this matter will define the portfolio's current success. Counsel should analyze the specific examination history of the assigned examiner to anticipate potential hurdles in the semiconductor space.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 1 | 87.9% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253358 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRANSISTOR WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF ELECTRON MOBILITY, AND PRODUCED TRANSISTOR | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253358 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRANSISTOR WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF ELECTRON MOBILITY, AND PRODUCED TRANSISTOR | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253358 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRANSISTOR WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF ELECTRON MOBILITY, AND PRODUCED TRANSISTOR | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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