Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 1 of 1 (100%) have an AI response strategy ready
Monfort Technology LLC operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's current patent prosecution activity is limited to 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PHAM, DUC M, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action under review. This relationship between the pending action and the examiner suggests a focused prosecution phase.
The examination process for this portfolio is contained within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a specialized focus for the company's intellectual property efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Because the 1 pending office action is managed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution path is direct and lacks the complexity of multi-examiner filings. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this 1 distinct art unit and the individual examiner's history. The data shows that the company's current patent office engagement is entirely represented by this 1 pending matter.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, DUC M | 1 | 88.5% | +12.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976010 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 43d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976010 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976010 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PHAM, DUC M | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 10, 2024 |
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