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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reed Semiconductor Corporation is managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, creating a concentrated point of contact for the company's current legal strategy. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending application.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there is 1 pending office action total, this examiner manages the current activity for Reed Semiconductor Corporation. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is navigating a specific examination path without fragmentation across different office departments.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution of the pending workload depends on the review of NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL. With the current art unit count of 1, the prior art landscape is likely well-defined within that specific group. The company's presence in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is currently represented by this interaction at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | 1 | 88.4% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976222 | Load Line Control Apparatus and Method | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976222 | Load Line Control Apparatus and Method | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
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