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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fundació Institut De Ciències Fotòniques has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A. The institute's active prosecution is located in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical niche for the pending application. This structure suggests that the technical merits of the application are being considered within a specific administrative framework.
The busiest examiner, GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A, is managing 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action, the entire active workload is concentrated under one individual. This provides a clear and singular path for the institute's optics-related patent prosecution efforts. The busiest examiner pending figure of 1 confirms that there is no distribution of the workload across other officials, making the examiner's individual feedback the primary factor in the current prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 1 | 51.6% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17986548 | OPTOELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17986548 | OPTOELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 2828 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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