Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Leak Detector AS is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HOPKINS, BRANDI N, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit. The current workload is focused on a single examiner's review, representing the only active point of contact for the portfolio's pending matters at the USPTO.
A practitioner handling this case must focus on the specific examination patterns of HOPKINS, BRANDI N, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative paths to allowance. The busiest examiner's workload of 1 pending action matches the total volume of the portfolio's current activity. This lack of diversification across examiners or art units means that any challenges encountered during the prosecution of this single action cannot be mitigated by progress in other cases. The strategy must be precisely aligned with the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Success in this matter is the sole focus of the current prosecution effort, requiring a highly targeted approach to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiner.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 1 | 85.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721421 | DETECTING LEAKAGES IN UNDERGROUND PIPELINES | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721421 | DETECTING LEAKAGES IN UNDERGROUND PIPELINES | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721421 | DETECTING LEAKAGES IN UNDERGROUND PIPELINES | HOPKINS, BRANDI N | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLeak Detector AS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brandi N Hopkins has the most, with 1 of Leak Detector AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
