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
Kunming University currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific point of engagement with the USPTO. The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner, Mark A. Shabman, who is responsible for the pending work.
Mark A. Shabman is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action in total, the review by Shabman represents the full scope of the university's current patent prosecution activity. The presence of a pending action for an examiner indicates that the current strategy is concentrated on a technological front.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Because this pending office action is the only active matter, the outcome will define the current success rate in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The interaction with Shabman is the central factor in the prosecution landscape for the university as no other examiners are currently assigned.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.2% | +13.4% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819386 | TESTING METHOD FOR YOUNG'S MODULUS AND POISSON'S RATIO BASED ON SQUARE PLATE | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819386 | TESTING METHOD FOR YOUNG'S MODULUS AND POISSON'S RATIO BASED ON SQUARE PLATE | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18819386 | TESTING METHOD FOR YOUNG'S MODULUS AND POISSON'S RATIO BASED ON SQUARE PLATE | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
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