Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Robe Lighting S R O has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 3 actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. The company works with 3 distinct examiners. All prosecution activity is concentrated in a single art unit, suggesting that the 3 pending office actions involve very similar technical subject matter.
JESSICA MCMILLAN APENTENG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for one matter. This means that while all actions are in the same art unit, the company must navigate the individual styles of 3 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this provides an opportunity to compare how different examiners within the same art unit handle the company's technology across these 3 pending office actions.
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) | 2 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.4% | +18.8% |
| KAISER, SYED M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.7% |
| SEMBER, THOMAS M | 1 | 84.3% | +11.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | — |
| 18593600 | Zoom System for a Wash Light | SEMBER, THOMAS M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | — |
| 18593600 | Zoom System for a Wash Light | SEMBER, THOMAS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300387 | EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19212296 | RANGE SENSING AND SAFETY SYSTEM FOR A LUMINAIRE | KAISER, SYED M | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18593600 | Zoom System for a Wash Light | SEMBER, THOMAS M | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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