Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
General Test Systems Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. AKM ZAKARIA is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This suggests that while the company faces multiple individuals, the technical focus remains within a single division.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for the pending matters provides a centralized environment for the company's prosecution. Even with multiple examiners, the shared standards of the art unit may offer some predictability in how the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology is evaluated. AKM ZAKARIA is the only person identified as the busiest examiner for the current filings.
For a practitioner, this structure means that although there are different examiners to persuade, the overarching technical criteria are likely to be consistent. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active footprint of the company at the patent office. Managing these matters within a single art unit allows for a more streamlined legal strategy compared to a more fragmented portfolio.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 1 | 83.6% | +13.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714817 | TEST SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 58d overdue |
| 18875199 | TEST SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED ANTENNA | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714817 | TEST SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 58d overdue |
| 18875199 | TEST SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED ANTENNA | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875199 | TEST SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED ANTENNA | ZAKARIA, AKM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18714817 | TEST SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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