Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
First Sensor AG currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution focus. The portfolio is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current legal challenges are confined to a specific technical group within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for these matters is KHALIFA, MOATAZ, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Having 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors across different applications. Furthermore, the 1 distinct art unit involved ensures that the procedural standards remain consistent across the current filing.
KHALIFA, MOATAZ holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This concentration in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area allows for a focused approach to resolving the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should note that the involvement of the assigned art unit may simplify the administrative aspects of the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHALIFA, MOATAZ | 1 | 90.9% | +2.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17518987 | Chip Module, Use of Chip Module, Test Arrangement and Test Method | KHALIFA, MOATAZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17518987 | Chip Module, Use of Chip Module, Test Arrangement and Test Method | KHALIFA, MOATAZ | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialFirst Sensor AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Moataz Khalifa has the most, with 1 of First Sensor AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
