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
Kart Kleen LLC manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Currently, the portfolio contains 1 pending office action, which represents the full extent of its active prosecution workload. This matter is assigned to OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's current legal strategy is dependent on the review and feedback of this 1 individual at the patent office.
The organizational structure of the portfolio is centralized, as evidenced by the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific technological focus for Kart Kleen LLC within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. For a patent practitioner, having 1 distinct art unit simplifies the landscape, as it requires monitoring the procedural norms of only one specific group. The presence of 1 distinct examiner further streamlines communication, as all current pending matters are subject to the discretion of a single individual. This concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 examiner minimizes the complexity of managing diverse examiner preferences across the portfolio, allowing for a more efficient and targeted prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 1 | 73.0% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528735 | LIGHT-BASED DISINFECTION AND/OR SANITIZATION OF A SUBSTANCE | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 43d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528735 | LIGHT-BASED DISINFECTION AND/OR SANITIZATION OF A SUBSTANCE | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18528735 | LIGHT-BASED DISINFECTION AND/OR SANITIZATION OF A SUBSTANCE | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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