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
Safeway Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter involves a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The concentration of the company's current activity in a single case allows for a highly targeted response strategy, as there are no other competing office actions to manage within this technology sector at this time.
The busiest examiner for Safeway Inc. is IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S, who is currently processing 1 pending office action. With only a single pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner holds the primary responsibility for the company's current outcomes in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The involvement of a single art unit further simplifies the administrative landscape, as the applicant only needs to monitor the procedural norms of one specific group. This focus ensures that the legal team can address the examiner's concerns with maximum precision.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 1 | 81.0% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585230 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 154d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585230 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 154d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18585230 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 2846 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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