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
Sandia National Laboratories currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This focus indicates that the laboratory's current patent office interactions are highly centralized. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a period of selective prosecution activity.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TRAN, DZUNG, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, TRAN, DZUNG is the primary point of contact for the laboratory's current examination needs. The fact that there is only 1 distinct art unit involved means that the laboratory is not currently managing cross-unit jurisdictional issues. Prosecution strategy is dependent on the specific feedback and examination style of this 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, DZUNG | 1 | 83.6% | +5.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168337 | Long-Wavelength Interband Cascade Lasers (ICLs) and Methods of Use | TRAN, DZUNG | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18168337 | Long-Wavelength Interband Cascade Lasers (ICLs) and Methods of Use | TRAN, DZUNG | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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