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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Liebherr-Electronics And Drives GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche within the broader semiconductors field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner pending count both equal 1, this specific examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload in this technology area. This concentration means that the outcome of the portfolio's immediate prosecution depends solely on the interactions within this single art unit. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is entirely subject to the individual tendencies of MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK | 1 | 72.4% | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730387 | Electrical Multi-Phase Machine | MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730387 | Electrical Multi-Phase Machine | MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK | 2834 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
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