Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sd Optics Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. CALDERON, CYNTHIA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
With 2 pending actions across 2 examiners and 2 art units, each matter is being examined in a unique environment. This requires a separate prosecution approach for each action, as they are being handled by different individuals in different technical groups. The presence of 2 pending actions total indicates a small but diverse set of current prosecution challenges. Practitioners must navigate the specific preferences of the 2 examiners while addressing the technical standards of the 2 art units. The current workload is distributed across these different personnel and technical contexts to cover the portfolio's needs within the Communications 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALDERON, CYNTHIA | 1 | 77.2% | +18.0% |
| CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | 1 | 67.1% | -0.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394866 | ASIC INTEGRATED MEMS DEVICE WITH EXPOSED BOND PADS FROM BOTTOM ATTACHED ASIC AND MAKING THE SAME | CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924943 | Real-time Autofocus System | CALDERON, CYNTHIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924943 | Real-time Autofocus System | CALDERON, CYNTHIA | 2639 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18394866 | ASIC INTEGRATED MEMS DEVICE WITH EXPOSED BOND PADS FROM BOTTOM ATTACHED ASIC AND MAKING THE SAME | CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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