Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Savant Systems Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. WALSH, EMMETT K is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending actions. The concentration of 3 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests a very focused technical environment.
With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks. The busiest examiner's 2 pending actions represent a majority of the current workload. Practitioners should prioritize their strategy for the actions assigned to WALSH, EMMETT K while addressing the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a high degree of personnel concentration for the company's semiconductor and optics filings. Maintaining consistency across the 3 pending office actions is critical within this single art unit environment, even as the work is split between 2 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, EMMETT K | 2 | 52.7% | +20.3% |
| ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 1 | 82.4% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187003 | MULTI-ROLE DEVICES FOR AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENTS | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187003 | MULTI-ROLE DEVICES FOR AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENTS | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | — |
| 19030042 | INTELLIGENT CIRCUIT BREAKER ELECTRICAL PANEL | WALSH, EMMETT K | — |
| 18755490 | INTELLIGENT CIRCUIT BREAKER ELECTRICAL PANEL | WALSH, EMMETT K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2896 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19187003 | MULTI-ROLE DEVICES FOR AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENTS | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19030042 | INTELLIGENT CIRCUIT BREAKER ELECTRICAL PANEL | WALSH, EMMETT K | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18755490 | INTELLIGENT CIRCUIT BREAKER ELECTRICAL PANEL | WALSH, EMMETT K | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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