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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Randall May International Incorporated has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R. The portfolio's active prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The 1 pending office action is the only active matter reported, and it is managed by 1 distinct examiner. This 1:1 ratio between actions and examiners, combined with the 1 distinct art unit, indicates a focused prosecution stage. The 1 busiest examiner pending action for LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R confirms that no other examiners are currently reviewing pending actions for this company.
For the practitioner, the 1 distinct art unit in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics suggests a specialized technical focus. The 1 pending office action requires a strategy tailored specifically to the feedback from LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R. With 1 distinct examiner to satisfy, the prosecution process is centralized and depends on the resolution of this 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | 1 | 82.5% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674621 | Saddle Attachment System for Bass Drum Carrier | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674621 | Saddle Attachment System for Bass Drum Carrier | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18674621 | Saddle Attachment System for Bass Drum Carrier | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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