Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Oleg Vasilyevich Zhilin has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, leaving a single prosecution channel. Counsel can focus on the examiner’s technical interpretation of the semiconductor, circuit, or optical limitations and on the record supporting the pending claims.
LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles the entire reported docket. A direct response strategy should address the action’s stated issues, use precise technical definitions, and ensure that any amendment remains supported by the disclosed subject matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | 1 | 82.5% | +11.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842787 | SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR USE IN A PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENT | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842787 | SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR USE IN A PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENT | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842787 | SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR USE IN A PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENT | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | 2837 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialOleg Vasilyevich Zhilin has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kimberly R Lockett has the most, with 1 of Oleg Vasilyevich Zhilin's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
