Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG currently has 14 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 14 pending office actions are distributed among 14 distinct examiners, showing that no single examiner is handling multiple cases for the company. The workload is spread across 8 distinct art units.
KRIM, PETER is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 14 distinct examiners for 14 pending office actions, the busiest examiner designation is shared among all participants. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a portion of the total volume.
The use of 8 distinct art units suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics portfolio is technically diverse. With 14 distinct examiners involved, practitioners must manage many separate prosecution tracks. The 14 pending office actions are not concentrated, as evidenced by the 8 distinct art units and the 14 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRIM, PETER | 1 | 82.2% | +4.3% |
| PAULINO, LENIN | 1 | 57.6% | +26.2% |
| ANDERSON, AMARA | 1 | 86.8% | +15.9% |
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.4% |
| BUTTAR, MANDEEP S | 1 | 79.7% | +16.0% |
| LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | 1 | 88.4% | +8.1% |
| LE, THANH TAM T | 1 | 86.4% | +13.8% |
| SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 1 | 77.7% | +23.0% |
| LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | 1 | 88.2% | +6.5% |
| KIM, PAUL D | 1 | 87.7% | +6.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570106 | VARIABLY POSITIONABLE LATCHING TAB AND PLUG CONNECTOR | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | — |
| 18567406 | PLUG CONNECTOR WITH LOCKING ELEMENT | LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706779 | HOUSING FOR RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL HEAT SOURCE | BUTTAR, MANDEEP S | 14d |
| 18010523 | TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING AND EXCHANGING FIELD SIGNALS | TAN, ALVIN H | 27d |
| 18857476 | ELECTRONIC HOUSING | KRIM, PETER | — |
| 18849967 | MANAGEMENT AND UPDATING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION DEVICES OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM CONNECTED TO AN OT NETWORK | PAULINO, LENIN | — |
| 18842404 | PLUG-IN CONNECTOR COMPRISING A MODULAR CONTACT DEVICE | ANDERSON, AMARA | — |
| 18724636 | CLAMPING BODY, CONNECTION ASSEMBLY, AND CONNECTION TERMINAL | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
| 18685519 | CONTACT ELEMENT FOR A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | LE, THANH TAM T | — |
| 18552688 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CONTACT UNIT, AND CONTACT UNIT | KIM, PAUL D | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682014 | DEVICE AND MOBILE RADIO NETWORK-ASSISTED AUTOMATION SYSTEM | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 2d overdue |
| 18706779 | HOUSING FOR RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL HEAT SOURCE | BUTTAR, MANDEEP S | 14d |
| 18849967 | MANAGEMENT AND UPDATING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION DEVICES OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM CONNECTED TO AN OT NETWORK | PAULINO, LENIN | — |
| 18842404 | PLUG-IN CONNECTOR COMPRISING A MODULAR CONTACT DEVICE | ANDERSON, AMARA | — |
| 18685519 | CONTACT ELEMENT FOR A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | LE, THANH TAM T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 3 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2478 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 2466 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857476 | ELECTRONIC HOUSING | KRIM, PETER | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18849967 | MANAGEMENT AND UPDATING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION DEVICES OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM CONNECTED TO AN OT NETWORK | PAULINO, LENIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18842404 | PLUG-IN CONNECTOR COMPRISING A MODULAR CONTACT DEVICE | ANDERSON, AMARA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18724636 | CLAMPING BODY, CONNECTION ASSEMBLY, AND CONNECTION TERMINAL | PAUMEN, GARY F | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18706779 | HOUSING FOR RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL HEAT SOURCE | BUTTAR, MANDEEP S | 2835 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18570106 | VARIABLY POSITIONABLE LATCHING TAB AND PLUG CONNECTOR | LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18685519 | CONTACT ELEMENT FOR A PLUG CONNECTOR PART | LE, THANH TAM T | 2831 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18682014 | DEVICE AND MOBILE RADIO NETWORK-ASSISTED AUTOMATION SYSTEM | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18567406 | PLUG CONNECTOR WITH LOCKING ELEMENT | LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18552688 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CONTACT UNIT, AND CONTACT UNIT | KIM, PAUL D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18253040 | TERMINAL FOR ELECTRICAL CABLES | GUSHI, ROSS N | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18307822 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE IMPEDANCE OF A RECHARGEABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18010523 | TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING AND EXCHANGING FIELD SIGNALS | TAN, ALVIN H | 2118 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17765450 | TECHNIQUE FOR MARKING A PROLATE OBJECT | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17768342 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL NETWORK SWITCH FOR USE IN A PROCESS-CONTROLLING AUTOMATION SYSTEM, AND SUCH A PROCESS-CONTROLLING AUTOMATION SYSTEM | PHAM, TITO Q | 2466 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
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