Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
N5 Sensors Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is handling more than a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, which provides technical concentration compared to the number of examiners.
ROBERTS, HERBERT K is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions total, the prosecution is spread across the distinct examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's semiconductor and optics work falls into different specialized categories at the patent office. The 1 pending action for the busiest examiner shows the distribution of the workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.2% | +13.0% |
| ZHONG, XIN Y | 1 | 76.3% | +15.5% |
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 81.3% | +11.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409108 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR AND SATELLITE AI FUSION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 23d |
| 18835885 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING CONDITIONS IN AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A DEVICE | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18421900 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DETECTION | ZHONG, XIN Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409108 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR AND SATELLITE AI FUSION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 23d |
| 18835885 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING CONDITIONS IN AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A DEVICE | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18421900 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DETECTION | ZHONG, XIN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835885 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING CONDITIONS IN AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A DEVICE | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18421900 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DETECTION | ZHONG, XIN Y | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18409108 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR AND SATELLITE AI FUSION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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