Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prysmian S.p.A. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution across 4 art units suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics work spans several specialized technical groups. With 6 pending office actions, the portfolio shows a consistent level of activity across multiple examiners, indicating a broad engagement with the USPTO's technical staff.
VELEZ, ROBERTO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for the portfolio, each matter is being prosecuted before a different examiner at the USPTO. This one-to-one ratio of examiners to actions across 4 art units means that the company must manage 6 separate prosecution tracks. This lack of examiner concentration requires a versatile strategy to address the varying perspectives involved in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 1 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
| SAWYER, STEVEN T | 1 | 72.5% | +30.5% |
| BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 1 | 78.3% | +14.0% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| LUEBKE, RENEE S | 1 | 41.7% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389622 | OPTICAL CABLE FOR BLOWN INSTALLATION | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18906570 | CABLES HAVING LONGITUDINALLY WRAPPED, SPLICED TAPE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17743532 | FLAME-RETARDANT CABLE | LUEBKE, RENEE S | 331d overdue |
| 18415132 | Power cable with non-metallic tape armour | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 71d overdue |
| 18944998 | INSULATOR FOR A CABLE TERMINATION ASSEMBLY, TERMINATION ASSEMBLY FOR A POWER CABLE COMPRISING THE INSULATOR AND A CABLE TERMINATION SYSTEM | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18770404 | GROUNDING GLAND FOR AN OPTICAL CLOSURE | SAWYER, STEVEN T | — |
| 18764649 | Optical Cable Module | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 2 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944998 | INSULATOR FOR A CABLE TERMINATION ASSEMBLY, TERMINATION ASSEMBLY FOR A POWER CABLE COMPRISING THE INSULATOR AND A CABLE TERMINATION SYSTEM | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18906570 | CABLES HAVING LONGITUDINALLY WRAPPED, SPLICED TAPE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18770404 | GROUNDING GLAND FOR AN OPTICAL CLOSURE | SAWYER, STEVEN T | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18764649 | Optical Cable Module | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18415132 | Power cable with non-metallic tape armour | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18389622 | OPTICAL CABLE FOR BLOWN INSTALLATION | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 17743532 | FLAME-RETARDANT CABLE | LUEBKE, RENEE S | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 331d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
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