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
Freistaat Thüringen (Materialforschungs- Und -Prüfanstalt An Der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a very narrow and specific focus for the company's current active patent filings. Such a concentrated profile allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy, as the company only needs to address the specific requirements of a single examiner within a single art unit.
RICHARD ISLA is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the portfolio, the company's immediate prosecution progress is entirely dependent on the resolution of this single matter. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a singular technical path for the current application. Practitioners should prioritize understanding this examiner's past decisions to improve the likelihood of a favorable outcome for the company's interests in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLA, RICHARD | 1 | 77.3% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646692 | MOISTURE SENSOR, METHOD OF MEASURING MOISTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT FOR MEASURING MOISTURE | ISLA, RICHARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646692 | MOISTURE SENSOR, METHOD OF MEASURING MOISTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT FOR MEASURING MOISTURE | ISLA, RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18646692 | MOISTURE SENSOR, METHOD OF MEASURING MOISTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT FOR MEASURING MOISTURE | ISLA, RICHARD | 2858 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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