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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit. Vinh P Nguyen is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active workload for the company.
Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. However, both actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical focus within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Vinh P Nguyen is responsible for half of the company's current pending matters. Practitioners must manage the expectations of 2 distinct examiners while working within the administrative framework of a single art unit to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, VINH P | 1 | 86.4% | +16.1% |
| CHAPA MILLS, NICOLAS ALDEN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880571 | SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ARC BURNING DURATION, AND LOAD STAGE SWITCHING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
| 18866621 | MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTER WITH MECHANICALLY SWITCHED DISCHARGE RESISTOR AND EARTHING SWITCH | CHAPA MILLS, NICOLAS ALDEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880571 | SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ARC BURNING DURATION, AND LOAD STAGE SWITCHING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880571 | SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ARC BURNING DURATION, AND LOAD STAGE SWITCHING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, VINH P | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18866621 | MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTER WITH MECHANICALLY SWITCHED DISCHARGE RESISTOR AND EARTHING SWITCH | CHAPA MILLS, NICOLAS ALDEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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