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
Modine LLC maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently faces 3 pending office actions, which are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual, requiring a varied approach to prosecution strategies across the portfolio.
Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while the individual examiners differ, the technical subject matter remains consistent under 1 administrative division. Such a structure may allow for some predictability in the general examination environment even as specific examiner preferences vary within the 1 distinct art unit.
MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner's workload represents a portion of the 3 total actions pending for the company. Practitioners should note that the workload is evenly split, as the busiest examiner holds only 1 of the pending matters, necessitating attention to the specific requirements of each of the 3 examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR | 1 | 69.9% | +30.4% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.5% | +39.0% |
| CRUM, JACOB R | 1 | 74.6% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868620 | Liquid Immersion Cooling Platform with Localized Cooling and Fluid Quality Detection | MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682556 | FLUID BREAKDOWN DETECTION SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES USEFUL FOR LIQUID IMMERSION COOLING | CRUM, JACOB R | 28d |
| 18868620 | Liquid Immersion Cooling Platform with Localized Cooling and Fluid Quality Detection | MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR | — |
| 18844337 | Liquid Immersion Cooling Platform with an Adjustable Weir and Multifunctional Compute Device Handles | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868620 | Liquid Immersion Cooling Platform with Localized Cooling and Fluid Quality Detection | MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18844337 | Liquid Immersion Cooling Platform with an Adjustable Weir and Multifunctional Compute Device Handles | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18682556 | FLUID BREAKDOWN DETECTION SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES USEFUL FOR LIQUID IMMERSION COOLING | CRUM, JACOB R | 2835 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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