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
Flexpackpro LLC operates a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The current prosecution activity is limited to 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a focused distribution indicates that the company's current legal efforts are concentrated on a specific technical advancement within the broader semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is KNIEF, THOMAS RAY, who is overseeing the 1 pending office action. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution path is highly streamlined. The workload under KNIEF, THOMAS RAY constitutes the entire active status for Flexpackpro LLC. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the portfolio's current phase depends entirely on the resolution of the 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics domain.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 1 | 90.6% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788556 | PRINTER FOR GENERATING TAGS USING ADJUSTABLE TAG SLOTS | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788556 | PRINTER FOR GENERATING TAGS USING ADJUSTABLE TAG SLOTS | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18788556 | PRINTER FOR GENERATING TAGS USING ADJUSTABLE TAG SLOTS | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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