Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Psi System Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is being handled by one examiner, SMITH, MAURICE C, within 1 distinct art unit. Because the portfolio's current activity is limited to this one filing, the prosecution strategy is entirely concentrated under this individual's review. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the company's immediate patent outcomes in this technology area are tied to the findings of the assigned official.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused technical scope for the pending application. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution does not currently face the complexity of navigating different art unit cultures or conflicting examiner styles. With SMITH, MAURICE C also serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, there is no internal benchmark within the portfolio to compare examiner behavior. The focus remains solely on the 1 pending office action and the specific requirements of the assigned administrative group. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.6% | -4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19271839 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE USING PHASE SHIFTING INCLUDING GEOMETRIC PHASE OPTICAL ELEMENT | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19271839 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE USING PHASE SHIFTING INCLUDING GEOMETRIC PHASE OPTICAL ELEMENT | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPsi System Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Maurice C Smith has the most, with 1 of Psi System Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
