Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nivarox-FAR S.A. has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing technical variety within the semiconductor field. The company is working with 5 distinct examiners to resolve these matters. This distribution of 6 pending office actions among 5 distinct examiners suggests that most cases are being treated independently by different reviewers.
COLLINS, JASON M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. The other examiners each handle a single action. The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized sub-sectors. Because 5 distinct examiners are involved in 6 pending office actions, practitioners must be prepared to address the 5 individual examiner preferences. This prosecution environment requires a case-by-case approach to successfully navigate the 3 distinct art units currently active.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, JASON M | 2 | 74.8% | +13.0% |
| DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1 | 62.3% | +10.8% |
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 1 | 69.8% | +22.3% |
| HOLLY, LEE A | 1 | 75.0% | +5.9% |
| JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 1 | 91.6% | +4.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497545 | WINDING DEVICE, PARTICULARLY OF A HOROLOGICAL BARREL, FITTED WITH A DISCONNECTABLE RATCHET | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939886 | METHOD FOR MAKING AN OPENING IN A GLASS OR SAPPHIRE TIMEPIECE COMPONENT | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | — |
| 18926557 | BALANCE SPRING FOR A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MEMBER PROVIDED WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADJUSTMENT MEANS | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18407544 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT, SHAPING TOOL FOR PRODUCING AN IMPRESSION OF THE MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT, AND MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT | HOLLY, LEE A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939886 | METHOD FOR MAKING AN OPENING IN A GLASS OR SAPPHIRE TIMEPIECE COMPONENT | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | — |
| 18926557 | BALANCE SPRING FOR A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MEMBER PROVIDED WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADJUSTMENT MEANS | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18816189 | DEVICE FOR SEPARATING WOUND IN BALANCE SPRINGS AFTER AN EXPANSION CYCLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BALANCE SPRING COMPRISING A SEPARATION STEP CARRIED OUT BY SUCH A DEVICE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18939886 | METHOD FOR MAKING AN OPENING IN A GLASS OR SAPPHIRE TIMEPIECE COMPONENT | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18926557 | BALANCE SPRING FOR A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MEMBER PROVIDED WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ADJUSTMENT MEANS | COLLINS, JASON M | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18816189 | DEVICE FOR SEPARATING WOUND IN BALANCE SPRINGS AFTER AN EXPANSION CYCLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BALANCE SPRING COMPRISING A SEPARATION STEP CARRIED OUT BY SUCH A DEVICE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18701650 | BALANCE FOR A HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT | COLLINS, JASON M | 2831 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18407544 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT, SHAPING TOOL FOR PRODUCING AN IMPRESSION OF THE MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT, AND MICROMECHANICAL FASTENING ELEMENT | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18497545 | WINDING DEVICE, PARTICULARLY OF A HOROLOGICAL BARREL, FITTED WITH A DISCONNECTABLE RATCHET | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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