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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hioki E E Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners but are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within a single art unit suggests that the company's current applications are technically similar or fall within a specific niche.
AKM ZAKARIA is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is divided such that each examiner is responsible for one matter. The fact that all 3 distinct examiners are in the same 1 distinct art unit means that while the examiners are different, the supervisory environment and art unit-specific practices will be uniform across all 3 pending office actions.
Practitioners should focus on the standards of the 1 distinct art unit, as it governs all current prosecution activity. Although AKM ZAKARIA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the other examiners also handle one action each. This 1 distinct art unit focus is the defining characteristic of the company's current Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio, as it encompasses all 3 pending office actions and all 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
| MURSHED, OSAMAH | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859881 | CONTACT RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846818 | MEASUREMENT CELL AND CONNECTION DEVICE | PATEL, PARESH H | — |
| 18718284 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | MURSHED, OSAMAH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859881 | CONTACT RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859881 | CONTACT RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18846818 | MEASUREMENT CELL AND CONNECTION DEVICE | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18718284 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | MURSHED, OSAMAH | 2858 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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