Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Infinitesima Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical concentration in the company's current filings. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person, which provides a variety of examiner feedback.
EYASSU, MARRIT is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company often has multiple examiners working within the same art unit. This allows for some comparison of examiner behavior within the 2 distinct art units while managing the 4 pending office actions. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across the 4 distinct examiners to ensure that the technical standards of the 2 distinct art units are met consistently.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EYASSU, MARRIT | 1 | 73.8% | +15.0% |
| SMYTH, ANDREW P | 1 | 71.7% | +14.5% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
| DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 1 | 71.3% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876934 | METHOD OF MEASURING FEATURE WITH PROBE MICROSCOPE | EYASSU, MARRIT | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368151 | NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 28d overdue |
| 18573589 | LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PROBE MICROSCOPE | STOFFA, WYATT A | 42d |
| 18876934 | METHOD OF MEASURING FEATURE WITH PROBE MICROSCOPE | EYASSU, MARRIT | — |
| 18698671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCANNING A SAMPLE WITH A PROBE | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 2 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876934 | METHOD OF MEASURING FEATURE WITH PROBE MICROSCOPE | EYASSU, MARRIT | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18698671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCANNING A SAMPLE WITH A PROBE | SMYTH, ANDREW P | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18573589 | LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PROBE MICROSCOPE | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18368151 | NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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