Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optipro Systems LLC has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is concentrated with 1 examiner in 1 art unit.
SMITH, MAURICE C is the listed examiner and has 1 pending matter. Counsel can tailor the next filing to the identified examiner and technical group.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.6% | -4.2% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093648 | SUB-NANOMETER COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES AND METHODS THEREOF | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18375045 | ELASTIC EMISSIONS MACHINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18375045 | ELASTIC EMISSIONS MACHINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19093648 | SUB-NANOMETER COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES AND METHODS THEREOF | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18375045 | ELASTIC EMISSIONS MACHINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOptipro Systems LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Maurice C Smith has the most, with 1 of Optipro Systems LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
