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
General Galactic Systems Inc. is currently navigating the patent process in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow focus for the company's current intellectual property filings. Such a concentrated profile implies that the company's immediate legal outcomes are tied to a specific technical niche within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio is MERCADO, ALEXANDER A, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is also 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's active workload at the patent office. This relationship between the company's pending matters and a single examiner centralizes the prosecution risk and opportunity.
By engaging with 1 distinct art unit, the company avoids the complexity of managing different examination styles across multiple USPTO departments. The 1 pending office action represents the totality of the current hurdles the company faces in securing its technological claims. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements of MERCADO, ALEXANDER A to move this matter toward a final disposition.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 69.4% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18499346 | CHEMICAL MONITORING UNIT AND METHODS | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18499346 | CHEMICAL MONITORING UNIT AND METHODS | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18499346 | CHEMICAL MONITORING UNIT AND METHODS | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 2855 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
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