Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meijo University manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, yet all are located within 1 distinct art unit. CHEVY JACOB BOEGEL is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This suggests that while the university is dealing with multiple examiners, the technical focus remains within a single art unit.
The presence of 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners means that each case is being reviewed by a different individual. This provides some diversification in the prosecution experience, as the university is not dependent on the decisions of a single examiner. However, the fact that all 3 examiners are in 1 distinct art unit indicates a very specific technical concentration in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics.
CHEVY JACOB BOEGEL is one of the 3 examiners, and his 1 pending office action is part of the university's active workload. For a practitioner, this environment requires managing separate relationships within the same art unit. The consistency of the 1 distinct art unit's policies may provide some predictability, even as the university navigates the individual preferences of 3 different examiners. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | 1 | 90.7% | +4.9% |
| GREEN, TELLY D | 1 | 82.0% | +3.9% |
| DAS, PINAKI | 1 | 86.8% | -1.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043220 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT | DAS, PINAKI | 4d overdue |
| 18744578 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, WEARABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532505 | LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | GREEN, TELLY D | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744578 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, WEARABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18532505 | LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | GREEN, TELLY D | 2898 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18043220 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT | DAS, PINAKI | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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