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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer GmbH holds a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active for this portfolio. This action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on electronic or optical measurement technologies.
The prosecution process involves a distinct examiner. BUTLER, KEVIN C is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the pending office action. With only one examiner and one art unit involved in the pending workload, the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated within a specific technical area of the USPTO. This structure allows the applicant to focus on the examination style of BUTLER, KEVIN C, which can lead to a more consistent prosecution strategy for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, KEVIN C | 1 | 89.5% | +8.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568531 | METHOD FOR INSTALLING AND OPERATING A MEASURING ASSEMBLY WITH SPATIALLY WIDELY DISTRIBUTED SENSOR MEASURING POINTS | BUTLER, KEVIN C | 24d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18568531 | METHOD FOR INSTALLING AND OPERATING A MEASURING ASSEMBLY WITH SPATIALLY WIDELY DISTRIBUTED SENSOR MEASURING POINTS | BUTLER, KEVIN C | 2852 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
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