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
S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. This arrangement requires a targeted legal strategy to address the specific standards of this specialized unit.
The portfolio's prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner. Since there is only one examiner for the pending action, the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized. This allows the company to focus its resources on addressing the specific requirements and feedback of this individual examiner.
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC, responsible for the pending office action. This matter accounts for all of the company's current pending office actions. Consequently, the immediate progress of the portfolio is determined by the examination of BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH within the art unit assigned to the case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 1 | 83.8% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749755 | Method And Apparatus For Mapping Distribution of Chemical Compounds in Soil | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 188d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749755 | Method And Apparatus For Mapping Distribution of Chemical Compounds in Soil | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 188d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749755 | Method And Apparatus For Mapping Distribution of Chemical Compounds in Soil | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 2877 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 188d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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