Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mycronic AB operates a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently shows 2 pending office actions. This indicates a level of active prosecution across the company's chemical and material filings. The presence of 2 pending office actions suggests that the company is managing multiple active patent applications simultaneously within this technical sector.
The workload is distributed among 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units. This suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated across different technical specialties within the USPTO. DARNELL, BAILEIGH K is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. Having multiple art units involved means the practitioner must navigate the specific guidelines and technical standards of different administrative groups.
DARNELL, BAILEIGH K is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the company's prosecution strategy is divided between different matters. Practitioners should manage these parallel tracks by considering the specific requirements of each examiner and the individual art units involved. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents a portion of the current docket.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1 | 70.2% | +26.2% |
| TUGBANG, ANTHONY D | 1 | 77.5% | +21.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17925145 | TOPOGRAPHY-BASED DEPOSITION HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT | TUGBANG, ANTHONY D | 10d overdue |
| 18006086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STEREOLITHOGRAPHIC THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17925145 | TOPOGRAPHY-BASED DEPOSITION HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT | TUGBANG, ANTHONY D | 10d overdue |
| 18006086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STEREOLITHOGRAPHIC THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18006086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STEREOLITHOGRAPHIC THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 17925145 | TOPOGRAPHY-BASED DEPOSITION HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT | TUGBANG, ANTHONY D | 2896 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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