Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Laser Systems Inc. manages a portfolio with 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which allows for different perspectives during the review process. The portfolio's activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations are classified into two different technical groups at the USPTO.
POOS, JOHN W is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This ensures that no single examiner is responsible for more than one of the company's active matters.
For a practitioner, the involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field requires a versatile prosecution strategy. Each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, necessitating separate responses for each case. The 2 distinct examiners provide a balanced distribution of the current pending office actions across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POOS, JOHN W | 1 | 93.4% | +4.6% |
| KING, MONICA C | 1 | 84.6% | +6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918173 | ALTERNATING CURRENT SIGNAL TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | POOS, JOHN W | 9d overdue |
| 18918186 | ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | KING, MONICA C | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918173 | ALTERNATING CURRENT SIGNAL TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | POOS, JOHN W | 2896 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18918186 | ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | KING, MONICA C | 2844 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
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