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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
NovAtel Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution of this matter involves 1 distinct examiner and is categorized within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of the application within 1 distinct art unit provides a specific path for addressing the technical requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. This focused arrangement allows the company to concentrate its resources on 1 administrative review process.
The busiest examiner for NovAtel Inc. is DO, AN H, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the 1 examiner currently reviewing a pending action for the company, this individual's assessment is the primary factor in the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should evaluate the history of DO, AN H within the 1 distinct art unit to optimize the response strategy for the 1 pending office action. Success in this prosecution will depend on resolving the specific issues identified by the examiner in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, AN H | 1 | 90.5% | +7.0% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
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