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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rootech Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates that the company's current patent activity is concentrated on a specific semiconductor or optical technology. Because there is only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized, requiring a focused response to the specific requirements of the assigned examiner. This streamlined profile allows for a very targeted legal strategy.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NGUYEN, TUNG X, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's current activity in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the distinct examiner. The 1 distinct art unit involved will also dictate the technical precedents and prior art that are most relevant to the case. Understanding the specific tendencies of the busiest examiner is essential for navigating this focused prosecution landscape. The outcome of this interaction will define the current success rate for the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TUNG X | 1 | 88.2% | +2.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893497 | SPLIT-TYPE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | NGUYEN, TUNG X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18893497 | SPLIT-TYPE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | NGUYEN, TUNG X | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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