Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hutchinson Technology Incorporated has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The pending office actions are distributed among multiple examiners, showing no overlap in individual examiner assignments. These examiners operate within 2 distinct art units in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Because AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY is the busiest examiner, the workload is perfectly balanced across the pool. This distribution suggests that each of the pending matters is being evaluated independently. Practitioners should note that while the pending actions are within the distinct art units, the use of distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to different individual perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 1 | 79.6% | +17.1% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
| WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1 | 54.4% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17966681 | Shape Memory Alloy Actuators And Methods Thereof | PICHLER, MARIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17862183 | High-Aspect Ratio Electroplated Structures And Anisotropic Electroplating Processes | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 29d |
| 18957521 | Configurable Components For Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators | AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18957521 | Configurable Components For Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators | AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 17966681 | Shape Memory Alloy Actuators And Methods Thereof | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17862183 | High-Aspect Ratio Electroplated Structures And Anisotropic Electroplating Processes | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 11, 2022 |
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