Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut Mines Telecom has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 3 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, though they are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a unified technical focus for the institute's semiconductor-related research. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions means that each examiner is reviewing a single application. This approach provides the institute with 3 different perspectives within the same technical division.
SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is consistent with the distribution across all 3 distinct examiners. Because all 3 pending office actions are within 1 distinct art unit, the institute may encounter similar technical standards and prior art across its applications. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 separate examiner relationships while navigating the specific requirements of this 1 distinct art unit. This profile indicates a focused but examiner-diversified prosecution strategy for the institute. Each of the 3 pending office actions requires a tailored response to the individual examiner assigned.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 1 | 87.6% | +21.4% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.6% | +9.2% |
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 77.3% | +19.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708922 | PROCESS FOR DETECTING AN ATTEMPTED LINEAR EXTRACTION OF THE CONTENT OF A MEMORY | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875120 | INSTRUMENTED SCLERAL LENS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE, OPTIONALLY FITTED IN THE LENS, FOR MEASURING THE PUPIL DIAMETER OF AN EYE | TRA, TUYEN Q | — |
| 18857359 | INSTRUMENTED CONTACT LENS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE FOR MEASURING REFRACTIVE ERROR AND/OR ACCOMMODATION | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708922 | PROCESS FOR DETECTING AN ATTEMPTED LINEAR EXTRACTION OF THE CONTENT OF A MEMORY | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
| 18857359 | INSTRUMENTED CONTACT LENS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE FOR MEASURING REFRACTIVE ERROR AND/OR ACCOMMODATION | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708922 | PROCESS FOR DETECTING AN ATTEMPTED LINEAR EXTRACTION OF THE CONTENT OF A MEMORY | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18875120 | INSTRUMENTED SCLERAL LENS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE, OPTIONALLY FITTED IN THE LENS, FOR MEASURING THE PUPIL DIAMETER OF AN EYE | TRA, TUYEN Q | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18857359 | INSTRUMENTED CONTACT LENS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE FOR MEASURING REFRACTIVE ERROR AND/OR ACCOMMODATION | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
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