Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovationlab GmbH is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This activity is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The distribution of these matters across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's filings are being reviewed in multiple technical divisions. Practitioners should observe that the company's current prosecution is not centralized under a single examiner.
The busiest examiner for the company is LEE, PAUL D, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company receives feedback from multiple sources within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. This variety in the 2 distinct art units allows for a broader understanding of how different examiners evaluate the company's technical claims. The presence of multiple examiners provides more than one perspective on the portfolio's patentability.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, PAUL D | 1 | 82.9% | +15.0% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 74.8% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038502 | Smart Waste Container System | LEE, PAUL D | 131d overdue |
| 18032293 | Sensor | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038502 | Smart Waste Container System | LEE, PAUL D | 131d overdue |
| 18032293 | Sensor | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18038502 | Smart Waste Container System | LEE, PAUL D | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 131d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18032293 | Sensor | TRAN, TRAN M. | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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