Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Moving Magnet Technologies currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a moderately concentrated prosecution landscape. REID JR, CHARLES H is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 3 pending office actions cover related technical aspects within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Because there are multiple examiners, the company must adapt its legal strategy to different sets of examiner feedback. The busiest examiner, REID JR, CHARLES H, manages 1 of these pending matters, indicating an even distribution of the workload.
Practitioners should monitor the pending office actions to ensure that the arguments presented to the examiners remain consistent. The presence of the art units may lead to different examination timelines or procedural requirements. This multi-track prosecution requires careful coordination to protect the company's interests across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID JR, CHARLES H | 1 | 69.0% | +24.3% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704397 | MOTOR WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTICS | REID JR, CHARLES H | 44d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704397 | MOTOR WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTICS | REID JR, CHARLES H | 44d overdue |
| 18006041 | CYCLE DRIVING DEVICE HAVING A TORQUE SENSOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704397 | MOTOR WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTICS | REID JR, CHARLES H | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18570207 | SMALL MOTOR | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 2834 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 110d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18006041 | CYCLE DRIVING DEVICE HAVING A TORQUE SENSOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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