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
Qrt Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused examination path. MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. This concentration within a single art unit and under one examiner indicates that the company's current semiconductor and optics matters are being handled through a single point of contact.
Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action is subject to the specific examination style of MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is specialized within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company can maintain a consistent prosecution strategy for its active filings. This streamlined structure avoids the complexities of navigating multiple art units or examiner preferences.
The fact that the busiest examiner is responsible for the only pending matter simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property. Successful prosecution will depend on addressing the specific concerns raised by the single examiner in this technical field. This centralized structure provides a clear and singular point of contact for the company's active intellectual property matters at the patent office within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 1 | 81.6% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748924 | RADIATION EVALUATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748924 | RADIATION EVALUATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18748924 | RADIATION EVALUATION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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