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
Heyuan Wihan Scientific And Technological Development Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This specific workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The narrow distribution suggests a highly focused prosecution phase for the current portfolio. The company's legal strategy appears contained within a very specific regulatory niche at this stage of its development.
The busiest examiner for the company is VILLALUNA, ERIKA J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action represents the total of 1 pending office actions for the firm. Practitioners can expect a centralized interaction given that all activity resides with a single examiner and art unit. This lack of variety in personnel and administrative units simplifies the tracking of procedural deadlines and examiner-specific preferences.
With 1 pending office action total, the portfolio does not show signs of broad systemic delays across multiple departments. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current patent efforts are not yet diversified across different examination teams. This focused approach allows for a direct response strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VILLALUNA, ERIKA J | 1 | 84.7% | +3.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716604 | PLANT LEAF SAMPLER | VILLALUNA, ERIKA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716604 | PLANT LEAF SAMPLER | VILLALUNA, ERIKA J | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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