Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mattiq Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diverse spread of examination environments for the company's current filings. This distribution suggests that the pending applications cover different technical sub-specialties within the optics and circuits field. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the technology is being evaluated under different sets of examination guidelines. The applicant should tailor their strategy to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units.
Examiner KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 of the 2 pending actions, the workload is evenly split. This lack of concentration across the 2 art units requires the applicant to adapt to different examiner styles and procedural preferences for each of the pending matters. Practitioners should prepare for 2 unique prosecution paths given the involvement of 2 different examiners. Resolving the 1 pending office action with the busiest examiner will provide important insights for the 2 pending office actions overall.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 1 | 72.3% | +47.6% |
| LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 62.5% | +25.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18298093 | FUNCTION-INFORMED MATERIALS STRUCTURE | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 9d |
| 17713416 | AI-ACCELERATED CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18298093 | FUNCTION-INFORMED MATERIALS STRUCTURE | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 9d |
| 17713416 | AI-ACCELERATED CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2128 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18298093 | FUNCTION-INFORMED MATERIALS STRUCTURE | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 2857 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17713416 | AI-ACCELERATED CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 2128 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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