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
Ns Nanotech Inc. operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, pointing to a concentrated prosecution effort. The data also shows 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current patent work is focused within a specific technical niche of the semiconductor field. This concentration implies that the company's current legal focus is limited to a specific administrative division.
The busiest examiner identified is KIM, JAY C, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, this individual is the sole point of contact for the company's active matters. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the decisions made within this one art unit. This centralized profile simplifies the management of the portfolio but places all current progress in the hands of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JAY C | 1 | 49.3% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800878 | MICROMETER SCALE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES | KIM, JAY C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17800878 | MICROMETER SCALE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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