Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical subject matter is consistent enough to remain in 1 distinct art unit, it is being reviewed by different individuals within that group.
The busiest examiner for the company is INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the total number of 2 pending office actions is handled by 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed across the staff. This distribution shows an allocation of cases across the available staff. Practitioners must manage relationships with these examiners, including INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH, even though the work remains within the same group.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | 1 | 62.9% | +26.2% |
| DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 1 | 79.1% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388881 | WIRELESS CHARGING DEVICE, SMARTPHONE KEY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE, SMARTPHONE, VEHICLE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | — |
| 18039309 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18388881 | WIRELESS CHARGING DEVICE, SMARTPHONE KEY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE, SMARTPHONE, VEHICLE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18039309 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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