Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Joseph & Roberts LLC currently manages a patent portfolio concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action under review at the patent office. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a focused prosecution pipeline for the company's current active matters. Practitioners should note that this concentration limits the variety of examiner interactions within the portfolio at this time.
The prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the pending application. Michael Rutland Fin is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner accounts for the 1 pending office action reported for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved across the portfolio's active matters, the outcome of the current prosecution depends on the review of 1 individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 1 | 80.1% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE ACCESSORY | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 33d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE ACCESSORY | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE ACCESSORY | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 2836 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
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