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
Khaled Abousaleh is managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. BYUNG RO LEE is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a lack of concentration in the current prosecution, requiring the applicant to manage two separate administrative tracks simultaneously.
Practitioners must manage two separate tracks of communication and technical requirements within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The presence of 2 distinct art units may also imply that the pending applications cover different sub-specialties, requiring unique arguments for each examiner. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners handles exactly half of the pending workload, no single individual has a dominant influence over the entire portfolio. Success in these matters will require a versatile strategy that addresses the specific concerns of BYUNG RO LEE while also satisfying the requirements of the second examiner in a different art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, BYUNG RO | 1 | 75.8% | +14.5% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 1 | 62.3% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250154 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL SENSOR FOR MONITORING PREMISES AND METHODS USING SUCH A SENSOR | LEE, BYUNG RO | 44d overdue |
| 17526500 | PUMP DEVICE | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18250154 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL SENSOR FOR MONITORING PREMISES AND METHODS USING SUCH A SENSOR | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 17526500 | PUMP DEVICE | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
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