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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polytronics Technology Corp. manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. Anatoly Vortman is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The concentration of both actions in 1 art unit suggests a unified technical focus despite the involvement of 2 different examiners. Practitioners should look for consistency in how this specific art unit interprets semiconductor and optics claims. With Anatoly Vortman and the other examiner each holding 1 action, the portfolio's success is divided between two separate points of review.
Because both matters reside in the same art unit, the legal team can apply insights gained from one examiner's feedback to the other's case. This structure provides a more predictable environment than a portfolio spread across multiple art units. The primary task is to manage the individual styles of the 2 examiners while adhering to the overarching standards of their shared art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 1 | 70.0% | +13.8% |
| LEE, KYUNG S | 1 | 87.2% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668690 | Thermally Conductive Device | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | — |
| 18390734 | OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION DEVICE | LEE, KYUNG S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668690 | Thermally Conductive Device | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668690 | Thermally Conductive Device | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 2835 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18390734 | OVER-CURRENT PROTECTION DEVICE | LEE, KYUNG S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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