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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hy Cite Enterprises LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. The centralization of the portfolio into a single art unit indicates a highly specific technical focus for the company's current filings. This narrow scope allows the applicant to concentrate their legal resources on the specific standards and practices of one specialized group within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the firm is COURSON, TANIA C, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action total, the workload is entirely concentrated. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner, COURSON, TANIA C, represents the sole point of contact for the firm's active matters. Such a focused arrangement simplifies communication but makes the outcome of the pending matter significant for the company's immediate patent strategy in this technology area. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the procedural landscape for the applicant.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COURSON, TANIA C | 1 | 65.0% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404104 | SURFACE THERMOMETER | COURSON, TANIA C | 36d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404104 | SURFACE THERMOMETER | COURSON, TANIA C | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18404104 | SURFACE THERMOMETER | COURSON, TANIA C | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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