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
Precision Robotics (Hong Kong) Limited maintains 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, providing multiple points of contact within the USPTO. Despite having multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests the applications share a closely related technical foundation. This structure allows the company to benefit from different examiner viewpoints while remaining within the same specialized examination group. It also ensures that the company's semiconductor innovations are being judged against a consistent set of art unit standards.
NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure represents 1 of the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The allocation of 1 pending action to the busiest examiner indicates a distribution of work across the 2 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's semiconductor and optics technology. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's prosecution strategy can remain focused on the specific prior art and standards relevant to that single unit. Practitioners should monitor how NGUYEN, CHI Q and the other examiner handle these pending matters to identify any diverging trends in the art unit's approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690869 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | 16d overdue |
| 18704940 | LEVELING DEVICE, MODULAR CLEAN ROOM AND THE DOCKING METHOD OF MODULAR CLEANROOM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704940 | LEVELING DEVICE, MODULAR CLEAN ROOM AND THE DOCKING METHOD OF MODULAR CLEANROOM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704940 | LEVELING DEVICE, MODULAR CLEAN ROOM AND THE DOCKING METHOD OF MODULAR CLEANROOM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18690869 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | 2849 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
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