Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kongsberg Maritime AS currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a spread of technical subject matter within the broader category. The prosecution workload involves 6 distinct examiners, matching the total number of pending actions exactly. This ratio between examiners and actions suggests that no examiner is overwhelmed by the company's filings, though it requires the applicant to manage different interpersonal dynamics.
OLSON, LARS A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the distinct examiners is assigned to a unique action, the workload is evenly distributed across the individual examiners. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles given the ratio of examiners to pending matters. The presence of 4 distinct art units further suggests that while the technology area is Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, the specific sub-specialties may vary enough to trigger different departmental reviews. Managing the pending office actions across these diverse units requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency in claim construction and arguments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLSON, LARS A | 1 | 81.9% | +14.0% |
| PAN, YUHUI R | 1 | 83.3% | +22.1% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 1 | 48.6% | +12.4% |
| TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | 1 | 56.5% | +41.0% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 69.4% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844762 | GANGWAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | OLSON, LARS A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF KEY SEATING WEAR IN OFFSHORE DRILLING | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 31d overdue |
| 18294091 | PULL-IN OF DYNAMIC CABLES FOR FLOATING WIND TURBINES | FIX, THOMAS S | 9d |
| 18728283 | INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IEMS) AND BALANCE PROFILE | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| 18718566 | A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT, AND AN INSTALLATION TOOL AND A METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF KEY SEATING WEAR IN OFFSHORE DRILLING | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 31d overdue |
| 18294091 | PULL-IN OF DYNAMIC CABLES FOR FLOATING WIND TURBINES | FIX, THOMAS S | 9d |
| 18844762 | GANGWAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | OLSON, LARS A | — |
| 18728283 | INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IEMS) AND BALANCE PROFILE | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| 18718566 | A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT, AND AN INSTALLATION TOOL AND A METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | — |
| 18691136 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOORING OF AND SUPPLY ELECTRICAL POWER TO A VESSEL | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844762 | GANGWAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | OLSON, LARS A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18728283 | INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IEMS) AND BALANCE PROFILE | PAN, YUHUI R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18718566 | A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT, AND AN INSTALLATION TOOL AND A METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CHAIN LOAD MONITORING UNIT | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18691136 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOORING OF AND SUPPLY ELECTRICAL POWER TO A VESSEL | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | 3642 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18294091 | PULL-IN OF DYNAMIC CABLES FOR FLOATING WIND TURBINES | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18526655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF KEY SEATING WEAR IN OFFSHORE DRILLING | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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