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
Opthroth Inc. maintains a patent portfolio concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The current prosecution landscape for this entity is characterized by 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's active engagement with the patent office at this time, indicating a very narrow or nascent filing strategy.
The portfolio's examination is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This total overlap between examiners and art units suggests that the subject matter is highly specialized. STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Because this examiner manages 1 pending action, which is the only one in the portfolio, their individual examination style will dictate the immediate success of the company's intellectual property efforts.
Practitioners should note that the lack of diversity in art units and examiners means that there are no alternative prosecution paths currently active. The focus on 1 distinct art unit implies that the technical disclosures are being evaluated against a specific set of prior art common to that unit. Success for Opthroth Inc. depends entirely on navigating the requirements of this single examiner and art unit combination.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV | 1 | 72.0% | -4.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720849 | SMART CONTACT LENS | STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720849 | SMART CONTACT LENS | STOYTCHEV, MARIN STOYTCHEV | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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