Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Precitec Optronik GmbH is managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 3 of these actions are located within a single distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow and consistent technical focus for the company's current applications. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different person, which requires managing multiple perspectives within the same technical field.
COOK, JONATHON is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is only a portion of the 3 total pending actions, the company's prosecution workload is spread across different examiners within the same art unit. This requires the company to maintain a consistent technical strategy in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector while addressing the unique preferences of each examiner. The lack of examiner concentration suggests that the company's success is distributed across multiple points of review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.0% |
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.1% |
| AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 1 | 76.6% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067381 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING WAFERS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282759 | CHROMATIC CONFOCAL MEASURING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED DISTANCE MEASUREMENT | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 15d |
| 19067381 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING WAFERS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067381 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING WAFERS | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18840843 | Device and Method for Measuring Wafers | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18282759 | CHROMATIC CONFOCAL MEASURING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED DISTANCE MEASUREMENT | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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