Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnolia Blue Corporation has 1 pending office action located in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio's current activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This centralized structure means that the company's immediate prosecution outcomes depend entirely on the specific practices of a single administrative group within the USPTO. Such a narrow footprint is common for specialized entities focusing on a single core technology within the semiconductor field.
RHYS PONIENTE SHEKER serves as the busiest examiner for the company, handling the 1 pending office action currently on record. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior or allowance rates within this portfolio. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active prosecution pipeline for Magnolia Blue Corporation at this time. Consequently, the company's short-term patent strategy is highly sensitive to the individual examination style and historical grant patterns of this specific examiner within the 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANK, EMILY J | 1 | 69.4% | +19.0% |
| SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 1 | 83.8% | +6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146553 | LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 77d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912619 | DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD THAT DRIVES A DISPLAY ACCORDING TO CONVERTED LUMINANCE SIGNALS AND DISPLAY DEVICE | FRANK, EMILY J | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912619 | DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD THAT DRIVES A DISPLAY ACCORDING TO CONVERTED LUMINANCE SIGNALS AND DISPLAY DEVICE | FRANK, EMILY J | 2629 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18146553 | LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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