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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quadrocore Corp. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are both located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical domain. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different person.
The busiest examiner, EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the workload is split among the assigned personnel, no single individual manages the entire portfolio. This structure allows the company to test different legal arguments across its filings within the same art unit. While the technical field is concentrated, the use of multiple examiners prevents a single individual from controlling the outcome. Practitioners should monitor both cases closely, as the results from one examiner in this specific art unit may provide useful insights for the other pending matter.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896692 | DEPOSIT-REDUCING IONIZATION SOURCE | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| 18293245 | A SOLID-TARGET COLLISION CELL FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896692 | DEPOSIT-REDUCING IONIZATION SOURCE | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18896692 | DEPOSIT-REDUCING IONIZATION SOURCE | EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18293245 | A SOLID-TARGET COLLISION CELL FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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