Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
ROGERS Corporation maintains 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's active matters are grouped into 2 primary technical categories. This division indicates that the company's innovations in this sector are being evaluated by 2 different specialized groups within the patent office.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual. BACK, AUSTIN M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing 1 of the company's 4 pending office actions. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, the company faces a variety of examiner perspectives despite the concentration in 2 distinct art units. This requires a prosecution strategy that is flexible enough to address the individual requirements of 4 different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 78.7% | +24.2% |
| WOODS, BRANDON SEAN | 1 | 82.9% | +5.7% |
| BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 1 | 81.6% | +13.6% |
| BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272140 | THERMALLY INSULATING MULTILAYER SHEET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE, AND ARTICLES USING THE SAME | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 12d |
| 18981062 | DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA SUBARRAY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078787 | MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC LENS, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICE HAVING SAME | WOODS, BRANDON SEAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981062 | DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA SUBARRAY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 46d |
| 19199591 | SPARSE GRADIENT DIELECTRIC LENS FOR IMPROVING FIELD OF VIEW | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199591 | SPARSE GRADIENT DIELECTRIC LENS FOR IMPROVING FIELD OF VIEW | BACK, AUSTIN M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19078787 | MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC LENS, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICE HAVING SAME | WOODS, BRANDON SEAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18981062 | DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA SUBARRAY | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2845 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18272140 | THERMALLY INSULATING MULTILAYER SHEET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE, AND ARTICLES USING THE SAME | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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