Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kanomax Fmt Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing some variety in the prosecution process. Despite having multiple examiners, all activity is centralized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical focus for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, KOLB, NATHANIEL J, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are split among the 2 distinct examiners. While the company must navigate the individual styles of 2 different people, the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the underlying examination rules and technical benchmarks remain uniform across both cases.
In the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field, having 2 pending office actions allows the company to pursue multiple patenting paths simultaneously. The use of 2 distinct examiners reduces the risk of KOLB, NATHANIEL J or any other single person's bias affecting the entire portfolio. However, the concentration in the same technical group means that any broader policy changes or trends within that specific unit will impact both filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 1 | 62.3% | +35.1% |
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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