Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metrex Research, LLC has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WILKES, ZACHARY W, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. The other pending action is handled by another distinct examiner. With 2 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, the prosecution requires addressing the specific standards of two different technical reviews in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
Practitioners must manage the 2 distinct examiners individually, as each is associated with a different art unit. While WILKES, ZACHARY W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the workload is balanced. This distribution across 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the underlying technologies may have distinct applications.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKES, ZACHARY W | 1 | 66.6% | +22.4% |
| ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1 | 52.4% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475110 | LENS HOLDING DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 11d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475110 | LENS HOLDING DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 11d overdue |
| 17228826 | HYDROGEN PEROXIDE DISINFECTANT COMPOSITION | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18475110 | LENS HOLDING DEVICE | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 17228826 | HYDROGEN PEROXIDE DISINFECTANT COMPOSITION | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Apr 13, 2021 |
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