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
Humanetics Austria GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to a matching number of distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is handled by a different individual. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for these applications within the patent office.
GRAVES, TIMOTHY P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the matters, the workload is evenly distributed. The fact that both matters are situated in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is interacting with a single specialized department, even though multiple examiners are involved.
Practitioners should note that while the matters are spread across multiple examiners, the shared art unit may lead to consistent examination themes. The presence of multiple examiners provides some insulation against the specific tendencies of any one individual. This portfolio's 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of its current active prosecution in this technology area.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.2% | +15.0% |
| FRANK, RODNEY T | 1 | 72.7% | +3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887546 | OVERRUNNABLE SMALL PLATFORM TEST VEHICLE WITH SOFT TARGET MOUNT | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887546 | OVERRUNNABLE SMALL PLATFORM TEST VEHICLE WITH SOFT TARGET MOUNT | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18887546 | OVERRUNNABLE SMALL PLATFORM TEST VEHICLE WITH SOFT TARGET MOUNT | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18390077 | Overrunable Test Vehicle | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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