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
Immervision Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is highly concentrated, reflecting a specific focus on optical or circuit technologies. This singular focus allows for a very precise application of legal and technical resources. The company can ensure that its arguments are perfectly aligned with the requirements of the distinct art unit.
HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is the sole examiner currently interacting with the company's pending applications. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific procedural and technical expectations of this examiner within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The involvement of a distinct art unit suggests a streamlined administrative process for this portfolio. Success will depend on a thorough understanding of this examiner's approach to optics and circuit claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17159648 | HIGH RESOLUTION MINIATURE WIDE-ANGLE LENS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17159648 | HIGH RESOLUTION MINIATURE WIDE-ANGLE LENS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2021 |
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