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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security GmbH maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. This count reflects the pending matters currently requiring response or review by the applicant. The presence of 2 actions suggests an effort to secure patent rights across these applications.
The data shows that these 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. These examiners are located across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's pending intellectual property is being reviewed by different technical groups within the patent office. For the practitioner, this means managing 2 separate prosecution tracks with no overlap in personnel across the art units.
KIM, TAE W is the busiest examiner for Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security GmbH, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific workload represents 1 of the total pending office actions for the company. Since there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided. This requires a strategy that addresses the individual tendencies of KIM, TAE W and the other examiner involved in the 2 actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, TAE W | 1 | 55.0% | +37.1% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17429521 | FILM MADE OF RECYCLED PLASTIC MATERIAL FOR WEARABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIA, A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE RECYCLED FILM AND DATA STORAGE MEDIA CONTAINING THE RECYCLED FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 38d overdue |
| 18024390 | IDENTIFICATION CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION CARD | KIM, TAE W | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18024390 | IDENTIFICATION CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION CARD | KIM, TAE W | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 17429521 | FILM MADE OF RECYCLED PLASTIC MATERIAL FOR WEARABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIA, A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE RECYCLED FILM AND DATA STORAGE MEDIA CONTAINING THE RECYCLED FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2021 |
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