Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heraeus currently has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing exactly one matter. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, providing a point of focus for the company's current regulatory interactions. This presence in 1 distinct art unit suggests the portfolio's current activity is specialized within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
QIAN, SHIZHI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed among the staff. Practitioners navigate the procedural requirements of the 1 distinct art unit while managing 3 separate interactions with 3 distinct examiners. This structure for 3 pending office actions allows for a focused technical approach while dealing with 3 individual examiner styles.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
| STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 88.4% | +8.8% |
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 81.9% | +24.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685416 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF A MOLTEN METAL BATH WITH AN OPTICAL DEVICE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 12d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18837416 | EXCHANGEABLE SPARK UNIT, SYSTEM AND CALIBRATION METHOD | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 46d overdue |
| 19172136 | MEASURING PROBE FOR MOLTEN METAL | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685416 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF A MOLTEN METAL BATH WITH AN OPTICAL DEVICE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 12d |
| 19172136 | MEASURING PROBE FOR MOLTEN METAL | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172136 | MEASURING PROBE FOR MOLTEN METAL | QIAN, SHIZHI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18837416 | EXCHANGEABLE SPARK UNIT, SYSTEM AND CALIBRATION METHOD | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18685416 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF A MOLTEN METAL BATH WITH AN OPTICAL DEVICE | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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