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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plasmology4 Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a prosecution environment that is currently limited to a single examiner and a single technical group, indicating a very narrow focus for the company's pending matters. The company's progress in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field is currently dependent on the specific review and standards of this 1 examiner.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is the sole individual managing the company's current pending workload. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized. This concentration allows for a focus on the specific standards and interpretations of a single examiner during the current phase of portfolio development. Such a focused environment may lead to more predictable outcomes if the examiner's tendencies are well understood. The presence of 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit ensures that the 1 pending office action is subject to a singular technical perspective.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 1 | 88.9% | +6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908436 | Harmonic Cold Plasma Device And Associated Methods | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908436 | Harmonic Cold Plasma Device And Associated Methods | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 2844 | DP | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
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