Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lighting Defense Group LLC operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. Both of these matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different examiners are involved, the technical subject matter of the 2 pending office actions is closely related within the semiconductors and optics field.
ALAM, MIRZA F is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles half of the 2 total pending office actions. The fact that both actions are in 1 distinct art unit may allow for some consistency in the examination process, despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor both cases for overlapping prior art citations or similar rejections within this single art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAM, MIRZA F | 1 | 74.3% | +33.9% |
| KRATT, JUSTIN M | 1 | 86.7% | +5.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17895072 | OUTLET RECEPTACLE COVER AND MODE THROTTLING SYSTEM | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037566 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERMEDIATE DEVICE STRUCTURE | ALAM, MIRZA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037566 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTERMEDIATE DEVICE STRUCTURE | ALAM, MIRZA F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 17895072 | OUTLET RECEPTACLE COVER AND MODE THROTTLING SYSTEM | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
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