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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novanta Corporation is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a highly focused prosecution effort at this time. The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current patent interests are concentrated in a specific technical niche within the semiconductor field. This concentration means that the company's immediate success in this sector is tied to a very specific examination environment.
The busiest examiner for the company is MULLINS, BURTON S, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the entirety of the company's current pending office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution success depends on navigating the specific requirements and examination style of MULLINS, BURTON S. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from this examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the technical landscape for this portfolio, allowing for a very targeted legal strategy to secure patent protection.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLINS, BURTON S | 1 | 68.8% | +1.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18379853 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING WOBBLE REDUCTION IN GALVANOMETERS | MULLINS, BURTON S | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18379853 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING WOBBLE REDUCTION IN GALVANOMETERS | MULLINS, BURTON S | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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