Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Helios Technical Services LLC currently has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that no two pending cases are being reviewed by the same person. The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which indicates a variety of technical focuses within the medical and mechanical sectors.
The busiest examiner for the company is MURPHY, KEVIN F, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, every examiner, including MURPHY, KEVIN F, is responsible for 1 pending action. This distribution shows a lack of examiner concentration, as the workload is spread evenly across 4 different individuals. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 3 distinct art units and coordinate with 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution process for Helios Technical Services LLC is decentralized, requiring the management of 4 separate examiner interactions across multiple technical divisions.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.8% | +27.7% |
| AHADI, ELIA | 1 | — | — |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.6% | +9.0% |
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 1 | 65.9% | +35.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398893 | INJECTOR FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION TOOL | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 157d overdue |
| 18872141 | REACTOR GATE VALVE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| 18907266 | TRANSFER ARM | AHADI, ELIA | — |
| 18717385 | THERMOCOUPLE LEAK DETECTION | MORELLO, JEAN F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398893 | INJECTOR FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION TOOL | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 157d overdue |
| 18872141 | REACTOR GATE VALVE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872141 | REACTOR GATE VALVE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18907266 | TRANSFER ARM | AHADI, ELIA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18717385 | THERMOCOUPLE LEAK DETECTION | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18398893 | INJECTOR FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION TOOL | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 157d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
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