Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Octavo Systems LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet they are contained within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical focus is narrow enough to stay within one art unit, the workload is split between different officials. Such a situation requires the applicant to monitor the specific tendencies of multiple examiners within the same technical group to ensure a unified prosecution strategy.
FORTICH, ALVARO E is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. Since there are 2 distinct examiners and only 1 distinct art unit, the company's experience is divided within a single technical group. This requires addressing feedback from different sources in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area, which can lead to different prosecution results for similar technical subject matter. The applicant must balance these individual examiner requirements to advance their overall patent goals.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 85.9% | +14.4% |
| TRAN, TAN N | 1 | 86.9% | +9.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565785 | SYSTEM IN A PACKAGE (SIP) THERMAL MANAGEMENT | TRAN, TAN N | 9d overdue |
| 18867298 | RELIABILITY TESTING USING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867298 | RELIABILITY TESTING USING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867298 | RELIABILITY TESTING USING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18565785 | SYSTEM IN A PACKAGE (SIP) THERMAL MANAGEMENT | TRAN, TAN N | 2812 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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