Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joule Case Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For a company with a single pending matter, the entire focus of their current patent strategy is on the outcome of this specific case. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is pursuing a specialized innovation within the semiconductors and optics field.
LY, XUAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload, as the total number of pending office actions is 1. This creates a singular point of contact between the company and the patent office, making the examiner's specific preferences a critical factor in the company's success. The practitioner must focus all efforts on the tendencies of LY, XUAN, as there are no other pending office actions or distinct examiners to provide a broader base of prosecution activity.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, XUAN | 1 | 85.5% | +6.5% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
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Start Free TrialJoule Case Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Xuan Ly has the most, with 1 of Joule Case Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
