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
Phoenix Contact E-Mobility GmbH currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a centralized technical focus for the company's current applications. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit allows the company to navigate a single set of administrative guidelines while receiving feedback from 2 distinct examiners.
ORTEGA, JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This accounts for one of the 2 pending office actions. The use of 2 distinct examiners within the same art unit provides the company with different perspectives on their innovations while remaining within a single administrative group. Practitioners should coordinate responses to ensure that arguments made to ORTEGA, JOSEPH do not conflict with those presented to the other examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTEGA, JOSEPH | 1 | 72.7% | +15.9% |
| KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | 1 | 46.4% | +47.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548239 | COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING AT LEAST ONE ELECTRIC LINE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | ORTEGA, JOSEPH | 126d overdue |
| 18546786 | CHARGING SOCKET WITH VEHICLE-INTERNAL DATA BUS CONNECTION | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548239 | COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING AT LEAST ONE ELECTRIC LINE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | ORTEGA, JOSEPH | 126d overdue |
| 18546786 | CHARGING SOCKET WITH VEHICLE-INTERNAL DATA BUS CONNECTION | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18548239 | COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING AT LEAST ONE ELECTRIC LINE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | ORTEGA, JOSEPH | 2834 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18546786 | CHARGING SOCKET WITH VEHICLE-INTERNAL DATA BUS CONNECTION | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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