Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Multidimension Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. These filings are situated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that while multiple examiners are involved, they are all working within the same specialized technical group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LE, THANG XUAN, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action represents a portion of the 3 total pending office actions currently active for the company. The use of the 3 distinct examiners for the pending actions shows that the workload is spread across different individuals, even though they all share a single art unit.
The concentration in the 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter within Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is being reviewed by a single specialized section. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the pending actions, the company has different points of contact within that art unit. This structure allows for multiple examiner perspectives within a very focused technical area.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | 1 | 88.2% | +7.0% |
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.1% | +11.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723374 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE WITH STEPPED COPPER BAR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2d overdue |
| 18895462 | ROCKER DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC CENTER RETURNING FUNCTION | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723374 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE WITH STEPPED COPPER BAR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895462 | ROCKER DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC CENTER RETURNING FUNCTION | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18723374 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE WITH STEPPED COPPER BAR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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