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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flusso Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each application is receiving an independent review. Furthermore, the portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, which shows that the company's patent activity is spread across different technical departments at the USPTO. This lack of consolidation suggests a broader technical scope for the 2 pending matters. The presence of 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for different departmental standards.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ALMO, KHAREEM E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the total of 2 pending office actions is split between the 2 distinct examiners. For the legal team, this means managing 2 separate prosecution tracks in 2 different art units simultaneously. The diversity in both 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to address different examination styles. Practitioners must coordinate across these separate channels to advance the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.3% | +5.6% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439196 | THERMAL SENSOR | ALMO, KHAREEM E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18362701 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR COMPRISING A CAP LAYER | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439196 | THERMAL SENSOR | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18362701 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR COMPRISING A CAP LAYER | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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