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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plotlogic Pty Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current applications in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics.
KYLE ZHAI is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under review. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner handling one action. This structure provides the company with two different examiner perspectives within the same 1 distinct art unit. While the company interacts with 2 distinct examiners, the shared art unit may lead to some consistency in procedural expectations.
The balance of multiple examiners in a single art unit is a key feature of their current prosecution profile. Practitioners should prepare for the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners while navigating the 1 distinct art unit. This profile indicates a small but technically focused set of active patent applications. The company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the current pending workload currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAI, KYLE | 1 | 75.0% | +18.5% |
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 81.9% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560277 | Geological Surface-Scanning Apparatus | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103726 | Geological Mapping | ZHAI, KYLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560277 | Geological Surface-Scanning Apparatus | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2d overdue |
| 19103726 | Geological Mapping | ZHAI, KYLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103726 | Geological Mapping | ZHAI, KYLE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18560277 | Geological Surface-Scanning Apparatus | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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