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
Rheosense Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This highly focused prosecution profile indicates that the company's current activity at the USPTO is limited to a single technical matter, requiring a concentrated effort to secure patent rights in the semiconductor and optics space.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHABMAN, MARK A, who is managing 1 pending office action. As the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is identical to the total pending office actions, SHABMAN, MARK A is the sole official currently reviewing the company's applications. This means the company's immediate success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area depends entirely on the interactions with this specific examiner.
From a practitioner's perspective, having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative burden but increases the strategic importance of the single pending matter. There are no other active cases to provide a baseline for examiner behavior or art unit trends. Consequently, the company must rely on external data or previous experiences to navigate the requirements of SHABMAN, MARK A and the assigned art unit effectively.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.0% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823539 | VISCOMETER WITH REDUCED DEAD-VOLUME AND HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823539 | VISCOMETER WITH REDUCED DEAD-VOLUME AND HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823539 | VISCOMETER WITH REDUCED DEAD-VOLUME AND HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRheosense Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mark A Shabman has the most, with 1 of Rheosense Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.