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
Perceptron Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action involves a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates that the company's current interactions with the office are confined to a specific technical domain and a single administrative group within the semiconductor field. The alignment with one art unit suggests a specialized focus for this filing, likely involving advanced optical or circuit technologies.
NOAM S REISNER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with the pending office action. This action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company. With only one examiner and one art unit involved, the company's current prosecution is highly centralized. This allows for a focused response strategy but also means that the company's immediate success in obtaining patent rights is entirely dependent on the review and requirements of this single examiner. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific technical standards of the assigned art unit.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REISNER, NOAM S | 1 | 74.1% | -8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661068 | LIQUID LENS SHUTTER SYNCHRONIZATION FOR OPTICAL PROFILOMETRY | REISNER, NOAM S | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661068 | LIQUID LENS SHUTTER SYNCHRONIZATION FOR OPTICAL PROFILOMETRY | REISNER, NOAM S | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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