Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quantumz Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing 1 case for the company. The prosecution is split across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical concentration despite the number of examiners involved in the current filings.
WOLF, DARREN E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners, as the 3 total pending office actions are spread evenly. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners across only 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple reviews within a limited set of technical groups in the semiconductor sector. For practitioners, this requires managing 3 separate examiner interactions while coordinating technical arguments across the 2 distinct art units currently active in the portfolio.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, DARREN E | 1 | 85.0% | +15.2% |
| HAMADYK, ANNA N | 1 | 88.6% | +8.1% |
| BACK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 78.7% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756244 | DUAL-POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNA | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899557 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899557 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18749578 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE SYSTEM | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899557 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE | WOLF, DARREN E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18756244 | DUAL-POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNA | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18749578 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE SYSTEM | BACK, AUSTIN M | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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