Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kumoh National Institute Of Technology Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. ESTEVEZ, DAIRON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This shows a perfectly even distribution of the company's current workload.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each matter is being reviewed by a different person. ESTEVEZ, DAIRON handles 1 of these actions, while another examiner handles the second. The 2 distinct art units suggest that the two pending matters involve different technical aspects of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
Practitioners should note the lack of concentration in this portfolio. The 2 pending office actions are being prosecuted independently by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units. This requires managing two separate technical and procedural tracks. ESTEVEZ, DAIRON is responsible for 1 of the 2 active actions, and the 2 distinct art units indicate that the technical focus is not identical.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 1 | 68.4% | -12.1% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867188 | MOBILE ROBOT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE ROBOT | ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 2d overdue |
| 18627741 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627741 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867188 | MOBILE ROBOT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE ROBOT | ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 3656 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18627741 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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