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
Foot-Candle LLC is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This focus indicates that the company's current patent office activity is concentrated on a specific set of claims within this technical field.
The prosecution is situated within a distinct art unit, reflecting a specialized technical review environment. TUMEBO, TSION M is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio, currently managing the busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only a pending office action in total, this examiner handles the full extent of the company's current pending matters. The alignment of the distinct examiner and the art unit for the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area suggests a specific scope of inquiry for the pending patent application. This concentration allows for a prosecution strategy directed at the assigned examiner involved in the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.5% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202666 | WATER-RESISTANT WIRED ELECTRO-MAGNETIC COMPONENT CAPTURE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 26d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202666 | WATER-RESISTANT WIRED ELECTRO-MAGNETIC COMPONENT CAPTURE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202666 | WATER-RESISTANT WIRED ELECTRO-MAGNETIC COMPONENT CAPTURE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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