Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schrödinger Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, indicating a split in the active workload.
The prosecution for these matters is contained within 1 distinct art unit. Lam S Nguyen is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This means the 2 pending office actions are divided between the 2 distinct examiners, with each handling 1 case.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that despite having 2 distinct examiners, the pending applications are technically related within the same unit. Managing 2 distinct examiners requires the company to address different individual perspectives. This data provides a clear view of the current prosecution environment for the 2 pending office actions and the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| LUO, JAMMY NMN | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132936 | ACCOUNTING FOR INDUCED FIT EFFECTS | LUO, JAMMY NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18206184 | METHODS FOR PREDICTING AN ACTIVE SET OF COMPOUNDS HAVING ALTERNATIVE CORES, AND DRUG DISCOVERY METHODS INVOLVING THE SAME | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18132936 | ACCOUNTING FOR INDUCED FIT EFFECTS | LUO, JAMMY NMN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
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