Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik GmbH & Co. Kg is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which represents the current focus of its prosecution efforts. This activity indicates a specific engagement with the patent office at this time. Navigating the requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector is a key part of the company's intellectual property strategy to protect its measurement technologies.
The prosecution of these assets is overseen by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical subject matter is specialized, requiring review by a specific group within the patent office. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the current pending matter is tied to the expertise of 1 distinct art unit. The alignment with 1 distinct art unit suggests the applications are closely related in their technical scope for the 1 distinct examiner involved.
AURORA, REENA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the pending action, their individual examination style is a primary factor in the prosecution's success. This concentration of pending work under AURORA, REENA simplifies the communication path but centralizes the review process. Practitioners can monitor the specific patterns of this official to better anticipate the next steps in the prosecution of the 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AURORA, REENA | 1 | 87.1% | -13.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17793543 | SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR SYSTEM | AURORA, REENA | 182d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17793543 | SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR SYSTEM | AURORA, REENA | 2858 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 182d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
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