Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fritz Egger GmbH & Co. Og is managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, the company is dealing with different technical examination groups. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This structure indicates that the current prosecution workload is not concentrated under a single examiner or art unit. Consequently, the company must manage 2 pending office actions by navigating the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners in 2 different art units. MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO is responsible for one of these 2 pending office actions.
Practitioners should note that the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area can be quite broad, as shown by the use of 2 distinct art units. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company cannot rely on a single relationship to advance its portfolio. Each 1 pending office action requires a unique legal strategy tailored to its specific examiner. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active prosecution challenges for Fritz Egger GmbH & Co. Og.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265960 | USE OF NON-HALOGEN FIRE RETARDANT COMPOSITION FOR INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION LAYERS ON SUBSTRATES | DODDS, SCOTT | 74d overdue |
| 18717576 | Method for Spectral Colour Density Measurement in Colour Printing | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717576 | Method for Spectral Colour Density Measurement in Colour Printing | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18265960 | USE OF NON-HALOGEN FIRE RETARDANT COMPOSITION FOR INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION LAYERS ON SUBSTRATES | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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