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
Promedital S R L is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This case involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activity. The concentration in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics reflects the company's specific technical area of interest.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LEE, HWA S, who is overseeing the 1 pending office action. With the busiest examiner pending count at 1, the workload is entirely concentrated under this individual's review. This 1 point of contact provides a direct path for the company to manage its active case through the patent office.
Practitioners should note that the outcome of the current patent effort depends on the interaction with LEE, HWA S. With 1 pending office action, the portfolio is not currently undergoing broad expansion. The coordination of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative requirements for tracking this Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING A KIT OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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