Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG is currently managing 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, with ANDERSON, AMARA identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The entire pending portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The involvement of 6 distinct examiners for the 6 pending office actions indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape. Each pending matter is being handled by a different person, requiring the applicant to manage separate professional relationships and adapt to different examination styles. This structure means that the company's success is dependent on its ability to navigate the individual preferences of the examiners.
Despite this fragmentation, the concentration of all 6 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit offers a degree of administrative simplicity. The company can apply a consistent understanding of the art unit's specific policies and prior art preferences across all cases. This centralized technical focus helps to mitigate the complexity of dealing with multiple examiners. ANDERSON, AMARA holds 1 pending office action within this unified technical framework.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, AMARA | 1 | 86.8% | +15.9% |
| TA, THO DAC | 1 | 86.4% | +15.2% |
| PATEL, HARSHAD C | 1 | 82.8% | +8.5% |
| CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | 1 | 86.3% | +11.5% |
| BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | 1 | 92.5% | +4.3% |
| HARCUM, MARCUS E | 1 | 89.3% | +5.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116471 | Plug Connector Assembly and Battery Assembly | HARCUM, MARCUS E | 4d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18138167 | CONNECTOR WITH ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE ELEMENT | BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | 111d overdue |
| 18802444 | Electrical Plug-In Connection | ANDERSON, AMARA | — |
| 18732993 | Outer Conductor Contact Element | TA, THO DAC | — |
| 18677238 | ELECTRICAL CONTACT ELEMENT, PRE-ASSEMBLED ELECTRICAL CABLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PATEL, HARSHAD C | — |
| 18281134 | TRIBOLOGICALLY IMPROVED SURFACES FOR ELECTRICAL CONTACTS | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802444 | Electrical Plug-In Connection | ANDERSON, AMARA | — |
| 18732993 | Outer Conductor Contact Element | TA, THO DAC | — |
| 18281134 | TRIBOLOGICALLY IMPROVED SURFACES FOR ELECTRICAL CONTACTS | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802444 | Electrical Plug-In Connection | ANDERSON, AMARA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18732993 | Outer Conductor Contact Element | TA, THO DAC | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18677238 | ELECTRICAL CONTACT ELEMENT, PRE-ASSEMBLED ELECTRICAL CABLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PATEL, HARSHAD C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18281134 | TRIBOLOGICALLY IMPROVED SURFACES FOR ELECTRICAL CONTACTS | CHAMBERS, TRAVIS SLOAN | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18138167 | CONNECTOR WITH ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE ELEMENT | BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18116471 | Plug Connector Assembly and Battery Assembly | HARCUM, MARCUS E | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
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