Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fogale Nanotech is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different official. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, suggesting the technology is split between two different technical groups within the patent office. This distribution of 4 pending actions across 4 distinct examiners means that the company must adapt to four different individual examination styles simultaneously.
SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the distribution across the other three examiners. With 4 pending actions and 2 art units, the company can expect to interact with multiple examiners within each of the two specialized departments. This concentration in 2 distinct art units provides a level of administrative consistency that can be leveraged during prosecution, even though 4 distinct examiners are involved. Practitioners should look for commonalities in the rejections issued by the 4 distinct examiners within the same art unit. The strategy for Fogale Nanotech should balance the individual requirements of the 4 distinct examiners with the broader standards of the 2 distinct art units that oversee the communications portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALI, VIKKRAM | 1 | 81.5% | +11.9% |
| SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | 1 | 76.0% | +42.0% |
| GILES, NICHOLAS G | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862119 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF THE SHARPNESS OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | BALI, VIKKRAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850454 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL ABERRATIONS INTRODUCED BY AN OPTICAL LENS IN AN IMAGE, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 5d |
| 18862094 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — |
| 18706079 | METHOD FOR THE GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISATION OF OPTICAL LENSES | LEE, HWA S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850454 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL ABERRATIONS INTRODUCED BY AN OPTICAL LENS IN AN IMAGE, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 5d |
| 18862119 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF THE SHARPNESS OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | BALI, VIKKRAM | — |
| 18862094 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862119 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF THE SHARPNESS OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | BALI, VIKKRAM | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18862094 | METHOD FOR THE FULL CORRECTION OF AN IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18850454 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING OPTICAL ABERRATIONS INTRODUCED BY AN OPTICAL LENS IN AN IMAGE, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18706079 | METHOD FOR THE GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISATION OF OPTICAL LENSES | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
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