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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Princo Corp. operates a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data indicates 1 pending office action currently active in the system. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which shows a singular focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. All activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the pending application falls within a specific technical category of semiconductors and optics.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the entire pending workload for the company at this time. Since there is 1 distinct examiner, the company's current experience with the USPTO is limited to the feedback and requirements of THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J. This creates a centralized prosecution environment where the outcome of the 1 pending office action is the primary focus for the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio.
Practitioners should observe that the 1:1 ratio of pending actions to distinct examiners means there is no internal comparison available for examiner behavior. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the prosecution is not currently spread across different technical divisions. Consequently, the 1 busiest examiner pending action handled by THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J represents the total scope of the company's immediate semiconductor-related patent challenges.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 82.6% | -17.8% |
| SAWYER, STEVEN T | 1 | 72.5% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096039 | SURFACE FINISH STRUCTURE OF MULTI-LAYER SUBSTRATE | THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17883847 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURE OF CERAMIC SUBSTRATE | SAWYER, STEVEN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17883847 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURE OF CERAMIC SUBSTRATE | SAWYER, STEVEN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18096039 | SURFACE FINISH STRUCTURE OF MULTI-LAYER SUBSTRATE | THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | 2847 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17883847 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURE OF CERAMIC SUBSTRATE | SAWYER, STEVEN T | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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