Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Loci Controls Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the company's pending matters is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized group at the patent office.
ALEXANDER A MERCADO is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's work in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is technically diverse.
With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company must manage two entirely separate prosecution tracks. There is no overlap in personnel or art unit oversight for the 2 pending office actions. This requires a strategy that can adapt to the specific requirements of two different technical divisions within the USPTO.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 69.4% | +19.6% |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082945 | DESIGNS FOR ENHANCED RELIABILITY AND CALIBRATION OF LANDFILL GAS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL DEVICES | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | — |
| 18796741 | DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES RELATING TO LANDFILL GAS EXTRACTION | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082945 | DESIGNS FOR ENHANCED RELIABILITY AND CALIBRATION OF LANDFILL GAS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL DEVICES | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 2855 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18796741 | DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES RELATING TO LANDFILL GAS EXTRACTION | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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