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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lotes Co., Ltd. is actively prosecuting 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests that each examiner is handling a case for the company. Despite the involvement of examiners, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit may allow for a consistent application of procedural standards across the company's active filings.
PAUMEN, GARY F is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. He is currently overseeing the busiest examiner pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's workload is split among its active examiners, as the total pending actions count matches the number of distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this indicates that no examiner is currently managing a disproportionate share of the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics matters. The presence of a pending action with the busiest examiner suggests a specific pace of interaction for each individual involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18760164 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220384 | TRANSMISSION BOARD AND CONNECTING MEMBER | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 124d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18760164 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | PAUMEN, GARY F | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18220384 | TRANSMISSION BOARD AND CONNECTING MEMBER | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 124d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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