Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schreder S A currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 3 actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner and a different distinct art unit. This distribution between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that the company's current prosecution is spread across 3 entirely separate technical and personnel environments.
CHANG, JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners handles only one case, there is no concentration of influence with any single official. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to 3 distinct art units and the preferences of 3 distinct examiners simultaneously. The lack of overlap between the 3 pending office actions indicates a diverse set of technical challenges for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, JOSEPH | 1 | 89.8% | +3.9% |
| CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 62.5% | +37.2% |
| LE, TUNG X | 1 | 87.0% | +3.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546129 | TESTING METHOD AND CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING TESTING METHOD | LE, TUNG X | 4d overdue |
| 19081346 | LUMINAIRE NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD | CHANG, JOSEPH | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570353 | LUMINAIRE ASSEMBLIES FOR TUNNELS AND THE LIKE | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081346 | LUMINAIRE NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2849 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18570353 | LUMINAIRE ASSEMBLIES FOR TUNNELS AND THE LIKE | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18546129 | TESTING METHOD AND CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING TESTING METHOD | LE, TUNG X | 2844 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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