Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nivalis Energy Systems LLC is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio into a single active case suggests a specialized interest in this technological field. This structure allows the applicant to focus resources on a single set of patent claims without the complexity of multiple concurrent proceedings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE, who is currently handling a busiest examiner pending count of 1. Because this represents the entirety of the company's active office actions, the prosecution strategy is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE within the context of the assigned art unit. This focus simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner interviews for the current portfolio while ensuring a direct line of communication with the USPTO.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | 1 | 68.2% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748420 | DIRECT DRIVE WHEEL END GENERATOR | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18748420 | DIRECT DRIVE WHEEL END GENERATOR | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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