Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Salas O’Brien Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the portfolio consists of 1 pending office action, the prosecution is confined to a single point of contact at the patent office.
This 1 distinct art unit represents the current technical focus of the company's semiconductor and circuit filings. The concentrated nature of this prosecution allows the applicant to focus their resources on a single set of examiner concerns. With only 1 pending office action, the company can maintain a highly targeted approach to securing its intellectual property within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 1 | 80.2% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227153 | HYDROGEN FUELED ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227153 | HYDROGEN FUELED ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227153 | HYDROGEN FUELED ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | FIN, MICHAEL RUTLAND | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSalas O’Brien Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Rutland Fin has the most, with 1 of Salas O’Brien Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
