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
Nulite Lighting Inc. manages a patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data indicates a concentrated prosecution environment with 1 pending office action currently on file. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical innovation rather than a broad array of semiconductor or optical technologies.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner's individual scrutiny will determine the outcome of the current prosecution cycle. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit implies that the subject matter is categorized within a specific niche of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy can be tailored specifically to the examiner's past actions and the specific guidelines of that 1 distinct art unit. This streamlined profile avoids the administrative complexity of navigating the differing requirements of various technical departments at 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 62.5% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19370159 | CONNECTORS FOR LIGHT FIXTURES AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19370159 | CONNECTORS FOR LIGHT FIXTURES AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19370159 | CONNECTORS FOR LIGHT FIXTURES AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
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