Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inertech Ip LLC has 7 pending office actions in the technology area of Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. These 7 actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, ensuring that no two pending matters are under the review of the same individual. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 6 distinct art units, which indicates a broad administrative footprint within the patent office. This level of dispersion suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics filings are technically varied.
The busiest examiner for the company is CRUM, JACOB R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given the distribution of the workload, each examiner handles exactly a single case. This lack of consolidation means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 7 different examiners across 6 different art units. The high ratio of 6 art units to 7 pending actions highlights the technical breadth of the current portfolio.
Practitioners must manage several distinct examiners for these 7 pending actions, which limits the ability to leverage a single examiner's history across multiple matters. The 6 distinct art units involved further suggest that the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings are not concentrated in a single technical niche. With the busiest examiner handling only 1 action, the portfolio's active workload is fully decentralized.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRUM, JACOB R | 1 | 74.6% | +27.9% |
| WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT | 1 | 84.9% | +16.8% |
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
| JAGER, RYAN C | 1 | 89.6% | +2.8% |
| GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 1 | 31.0% | +22.9% |
| TRAN, THAI H | 1 | 71.9% | +25.3% |
| VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 1 | 79.9% | +17.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595165 | TRANSFORMERLESS MULTI-LEVEL MEDIUM-VOLTAGE UNINTERRUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JAGER, RYAN C | 79d overdue |
| 18616132 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID | WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779868 | SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS | CRUM, JACOB R | 321d overdue |
| 18616139 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 45d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779868 | SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS | CRUM, JACOB R | 321d overdue |
| 17182035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING HARMONICS IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS BY USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES | TRAN, THAI H | 60d overdue |
| 18616139 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 45d overdue |
| 18616132 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID | WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT | — |
| 18118357 | SYSTEMS AND ASSEMBLIES FOR COOLING SERVER RACKS | GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | — |
| 16505539 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING A PLURAL IN-SERIES PUMPED LIQUID REFRIGERANT TRIM EVAPORATOR CYCLE | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779868 | SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS | CRUM, JACOB R | 2835 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 321d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18616132 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID | WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT | 3741 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18616139 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 2129 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18595165 | TRANSFORMERLESS MULTI-LEVEL MEDIUM-VOLTAGE UNINTERRUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JAGER, RYAN C | 2842 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18118357 | SYSTEMS AND ASSEMBLIES FOR COOLING SERVER RACKS | GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 2835 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 17182035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING HARMONICS IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS BY USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES | TRAN, THAI H | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2021 |
| 16505539 | COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING A PLURAL IN-SERIES PUMPED LIQUID REFRIGERANT TRIM EVAPORATOR CYCLE | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2019 |
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