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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sapient Industries Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent efforts.
The busiest examiner for the company is BARBEE, MANUEL L, who is handling the 1 pending office action. This individual is responsible for the entirety of the portfolio's current prosecution activity within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should monitor the specific examination patterns of BARBEE, MANUEL L, as his decisions will directly determine the success of the company's current filing in 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBEE, MANUEL L | 1 | 81.7% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966655 | Techniques For Integrating Wireless Functionality In A Power Outlet | BARBEE, MANUEL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966655 | Techniques For Integrating Wireless Functionality In A Power Outlet | BARBEE, MANUEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966655 | Techniques For Integrating Wireless Functionality In A Power Outlet | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 2857 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
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