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
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The organization has 1 pending office action within this specific domain. This 1 pending office action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort at this stage of their intellectual property development. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the current portfolio activity depends on the review of this 1 distinct examiner at the patent office.
The prosecution activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current filings are technically cohesive and fall under a specific examination group. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is YOUNG, MONICA S, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure matches the total pending office actions for the entire company, showing that all current examiner interactions are centralized under her authority. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific preferences and past patterns of YOUNG, MONICA S to move the pending application toward allowance. Understanding the technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved is also crucial for a successful response.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG, MONICA S | 1 | 74.6% | +32.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573442 | GRID SENSOR, GRID SENSOR SYSTEM, EVALUATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CORRECTING AN INTERFERING INFLUENCE OF ONE OR MORE FLUIDS | YOUNG, MONICA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573442 | GRID SENSOR, GRID SENSOR SYSTEM, EVALUATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CORRECTING AN INTERFERING INFLUENCE OF ONE OR MORE FLUIDS | YOUNG, MONICA S | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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