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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Photo Electron Soul Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner, STOFFA, WYATT A, within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, STOFFA, WYATT A is responsible for the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests a focused prosecution effort within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Because the workload is limited to a single examiner and a single art unit, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific interpretation of STOFFA, WYATT A. This lack of diversification across examiners means that there are no internal benchmarks to compare examiner behavior for this portfolio.
For practitioners, the pending office action represents the total current activity for the company at the patent office. The 1 distinct art unit involved will provide the regulatory context for the examination. Since STOFFA, WYATT A is the only examiner with a pending office action, their past decisions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics will be the most relevant indicator for future results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556080 | ELECTRON GUN, ELECTRON BEAM APPLICATOR, AND EMISSION METHOD OF ELECTRON BEAM | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556080 | ELECTRON GUN, ELECTRON BEAM APPLICATOR, AND EMISSION METHOD OF ELECTRON BEAM | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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