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
Power Monitors Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is focused through 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a narrow administrative and technical path for the company's current semiconductor-related filings. The involvement of a single art unit indicates that the technical review is confined to a single specialized group.
SULTANA, DILARA is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the full extent of the company's active pending matters. For this portfolio, the 1 pending office action is the sole focus of current prosecution efforts in the circuits and optics domain. Practitioners can observe that the 1 distinct art unit involved defines the administrative variety of the prosecution process. The concentration of the active matter under SULTANA, DILARA provides a singular focus for the company's current patenting activities. This alignment between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload shows that the entire active portfolio is under the review of a single individual.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346468 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF POWERLINE EVENTS AND SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | SULTANA, DILARA | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346468 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF POWERLINE EVENTS AND SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | SULTANA, DILARA | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18346468 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF POWERLINE EVENTS AND SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
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