Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and a corresponding number of distinct art units. This distribution indicates that every pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a separate unit.
KIANNI, KAVEH C is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is known, the workload is clearly split among the assigned examiners.
Practitioners should note the lack of concentration in a single art unit. With multiple distinct art units involved for the pending actions, the prosecution strategy must account for the specific practices of various units. The presence of multiple distinct examiners suggests that institutional knowledge is not centralized in one individual.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIANNI, KAVEH C | 1 | 87.2% | +11.0% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291295 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL DEVICE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291295 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL DEVICE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | — |
| 17906957 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A CAMERA IMAGE OF A WELDING SEAM FOR AN IMAGE PROCESSING-SUPPORTED LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291295 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL DEVICE | KIANNI, KAVEH C | 2874 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 17906957 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A CAMERA IMAGE OF A WELDING SEAM FOR AN IMAGE PROCESSING-SUPPORTED LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
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