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
Neapco Intellectual Property Holdings LLC is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, suggesting that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution can lead to varying prosecution timelines and outcomes depending on the specific examiner assigned to each case.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the semiconductor and optics technologies are being evaluated across different specialized groups within the USPTO. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner's workload represents a portion of the total pending actions for the company.
With the distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution strategy for Neapco Intellectual Property Holdings LLC is diversified. Practitioners should prepare for different examination styles, as the busiest examiner manages 1 of the active matters. The overlap in art units suggests some thematic consistency in the technology being patented, even as it is spread across multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 1 | 81.0% | +20.3% |
| MULLINS, BURTON S | 1 | 68.8% | +1.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887094 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS FUNCTIONING AS AN OUTER RACEWAY | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824301 | LUBRICANT SUPPORTED ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH BEARING SUPPORT | MULLINS, BURTON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887094 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS FUNCTIONING AS AN OUTER RACEWAY | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18887094 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS FUNCTIONING AS AN OUTER RACEWAY | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 2834 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18824301 | LUBRICANT SUPPORTED ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH BEARING SUPPORT | MULLINS, BURTON S | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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