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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quintessent Inc. is developing a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action for the company. This action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated focus on a specific technical discipline within the semiconductor and optics field.
The portfolio involves a distinct examiner, PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI. This individual is the busiest examiner with a busiest examiner pending action. Because the pending office action is the only active matter, the practitioner is interacting with a single examiner. This creates a simplified prosecution environment where the distinct art unit and examiner define the current landscape. The busiest examiner pending count confirms that there are no other active office actions being handled by different personnel at this time.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 1 | 77.8% | +29.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232178 | Heterogeneous Integration Using a Germanium Handle Substrate | PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18232178 | Heterogeneous Integration Using a Germanium Handle Substrate | PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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