Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schneider Electric has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that while each office action has a unique examiner, there is some overlap at the art unit level, with 2 units managing the pending matters. This structure requires the applicant to manage 3 different examiner personalities while navigating the technical standards of 2 different administrative groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, at least two examiners are likely working within the same unit. This structure requires the applicant to manage different examiner personalities while potentially navigating the shared technical standards of the administrative groups involved. Practitioners should look for consistency in how the 2 distinct art units handle medical device claims, even as they address the individual feedback from FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE and other officials. The presence of multiple units suggests that the company's medical technology may span different sub-specialties within the broader engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | 1 | 83.3% | +1.9% |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
| THOMAS, LUCY M | 1 | 62.4% | +17.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010657 | SOLID-STATE CIRCUIT BREAKER | FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | — |
| 18528246 | HEAT DISSIPATION EQUIPMENT CABINET | LANE, DEVON | — |
| 18517170 | RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528246 | HEAT DISSIPATION EQUIPMENT CABINET | LANE, DEVON | — |
| 18517170 | RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010657 | SOLID-STATE CIRCUIT BREAKER | FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18528246 | HEAT DISSIPATION EQUIPMENT CABINET | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18517170 | RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE RESIDUAL CURRENT CIRCUIT BREAKER | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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