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
Liv Medical Technology Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is currently under review by a distinct examiner in a distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's active patent interests are currently confined to a narrow technical scope within the broader semiconductor field, rather than being spread across multiple departments.
The busiest examiner for the company is COOK, JONATHON, who is handling the 1 pending office action. Since this is the examiner with an active case for the company, the progression of the portfolio is subject to this examiner's specific review process. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the individual patterns of this examiner to optimize the chances of allowance. The examiner's history in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area will be a primary factor in the eventual outcome.
The use of the distinct art unit indicates a stable environment for prosecution without the variance found when dealing with multiple USPTO sections. This allows for a consistent approach to the active office action currently on the docket. The data shows a singular path for the company's current patent applications, simplifying the management of the intellectual property portfolio.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17715573 | OPHTHALMIC INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGING SYSTEM USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY LIGHT PIPE | COOK, JONATHON | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17715573 | OPHTHALMIC INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGING SYSTEM USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY LIGHT PIPE | COOK, JONATHON | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17715573 | OPHTHALMIC INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGING SYSTEM USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY LIGHT PIPE | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 07, 2022 |
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