Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Manufacturing Resources International Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across the distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending matter is undergoing an independent review process in a different administrative section. Wu, Jerry is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action.
With the distinct examiners each managing a pending office action, the workload is divided between the officials. The company must navigate the specific requirements of 2 distinct art units to advance the pending office actions. This distribution within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area suggests that the filings may target different specialized technical standards. Practitioners should prepare for two separate prosecution tracks, each governed by a different examiner. The 1 pending office action under Wu, Jerry is a central component of this portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JERRY | 1 | 68.6% | +20.3% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592317 | DISPLAY ASSEMBLIES WITH DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE SENSORS | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 9d |
| 18645548 | HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR AN INTEGRATED DISPLAY UNIT | WU, JERRY | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645548 | HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR AN INTEGRATED DISPLAY UNIT | WU, JERRY | 2841 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18592317 | DISPLAY ASSEMBLIES WITH DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE SENSORS | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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