Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fives Giddings & Lewis LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. Alan W Snyder is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. The concentration in a single art unit despite multiple examiners suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the company is interacting with multiple officials within the same technical group. This arrangement allows for some diversity in examiner perspective while keeping the prosecution within the bounds of 1 distinct art unit. The fact that Alan W Snyder is the busiest examiner with only 1 pending action highlights that the workload is evenly split. Practitioners can benefit from this structure by comparing the feedback from both examiners to identify common themes or challenges within that specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNYDER, ALAN W | 1 | 82.1% | +12.3% |
| QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 1 | 70.4% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115304 | TOOL MEASUREMENT ASSEMBLY FOR A MILL-TURN MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 9d overdue |
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908934 | MASS DAMPER ASSEMBLY FOR VERTICAL TURNING CENTER | SNYDER, ALAN W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18115304 | TOOL MEASUREMENT ASSEMBLY FOR A MILL-TURN MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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