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
Hawkeye Surgical Lighting Inc. maintains a focused patent portfolio with 1 pending office action currently active. This prosecution activity is situated within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, reflecting the company's specific technical focus. The workload is distributed across 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow jurisdictional footprint for its current filings.
The company's pending matters are handled by 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a consolidated interaction with the patent office. WELLS, KENNETH B is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's immediate prosecution efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual within the identified technology area.
Practitioners should note that with only 1 pending office action, the portfolio does not currently show signs of broad or divergent examiner perspectives. The alignment of the busiest examiner, WELLS, KENNETH B, with the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area highlights a streamlined but singular path for the company's current intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 1 | 86.2% | +2.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679195 | VOICE AND MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EYEWEAR | WELLS, KENNETH B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18679195 | VOICE AND MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EYEWEAR | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2842 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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