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
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation operates a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active for this portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on high-tech electronic or optical measurement systems.
Prosecution for the company involves a distinct examiner. LI, LARRY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the pending office action. The concentration of the pending workload under one examiner and one art unit indicates a streamlined examination process for the company's current filings. This structure allows the applicant to engage directly with LI, LARRY, which can lead to a more consistent and efficient examination process for the 1 pending office action. The involvement of a single distinct examiner ensures that the prosecution strategy remains focused within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, LARRY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
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