Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innocare Optoelectronics Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These cases are spread across 4 distinct art units and involve 4 distinct examiners. This high level of dispersion indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are highly diversified across different technical specialties and individual reviewers. Navigating 4 distinct art units requires the applicant to adapt to a wide variety of internal USPTO policies and technical standards simultaneously.
The busiest examiner, ESKRIDGE, CORY W, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending office action, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's style dominates the portfolio's progress. Instead, the company must manage four separate relationships and sets of examiner expectations. With 4 pending office actions each in a different unit, the firm's patent strategy in the transportation and mechanical systems sector is broad, requiring a versatile approach to address the unique requirements of each of the 4 distinct examiners.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESKRIDGE, CORY W | 1 | 72.5% | +7.6% |
| HOANG, HAN DINH | 1 | 75.0% | +17.7% |
| GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 1 | 38.5% | +52.8% |
| BENITEZ ROSARIO, JOSHUA | 1 | 69.7% | +17.0% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346853 | OPERATING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 11d overdue |
| 18537749 | CONTROL METHOD FOR DETECTION SYSTEM | HOANG, HAN DINH | 47d |
| 17973563 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | BENITEZ ROSARIO, JOSHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2478 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18403672 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ESKRIDGE, CORY W | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18537749 | CONTROL METHOD FOR DETECTION SYSTEM | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18346853 | OPERATING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 04, 2023 |
| 17973563 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | BENITEZ ROSARIO, JOSHUA | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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