Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seas Geosciences LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This case is assigned to a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit. The company's active prosecution is entirely concentrated in this matter. This profile indicates a very specific technical focus within the semiconductor and optics sector.
Janice M Soto is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. With only a single pending action total, this examiner is responsible for all of the company's current active prosecution. This concentration in a single art unit means that the company's current legal efforts are focused on the standards of a single specialized division. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of Janice M Soto, as this individual manages the 1 pending office action.
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 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOTO, JANICE M | 1 | 68.7% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19405135 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY PROBE | SOTO, JANICE 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19405135 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY PROBE | SOTO, JANICE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19405135 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY PROBE | SOTO, JANICE M | 2855 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
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