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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kortek Corporation maintains 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently limited to a distinct examiner and a single art unit, reflecting a narrow focus for its active patent applications. This structure suggests that the company is currently navigating a specific technical niche within the broader semiconductor field, where the standards of that unit will be the primary hurdle for patent issuance.
The busiest examiner, LIU, SHAN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this represents the only active action for the company, the examiner's specific tendencies and the art unit's practices will dictate the immediate outcomes for the portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for a focused negotiation with this examiner, as the outstanding matter represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office. Understanding the examiner's specific history with similar technologies in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area will be critical for moving this application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, SHAN | 1 | 72.4% | +39.4% |
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.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 1 |
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