Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensortek Technology Corp. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently faces 4 pending office actions, which are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. This distribution across 4 distinct examiners suggests a diverse range of inquiries or a broad set of technologies being pursued within the semiconductor space.
The prosecution is further spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the 4 pending office actions are being reviewed in different specialized sections of the patent office. SEVEN, EVREN is the busiest examiner for this company, though they are only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the 4 pending office actions are split among 4 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple simultaneous legal fronts. No 1 examiner holds a majority of the workload, as the busiest examiner handles only 1 action. This distribution requires the applicant to adapt to the specific tendencies of 4 different reviewers across the patent office.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVEN, EVREN | 1 | 74.5% | +8.6% |
| ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 1 | 83.4% | +4.2% |
| GARBER, ERIN R | 1 | 82.7% | +17.7% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 1 | 79.7% | +12.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100716 | LIGHT SENSOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GARBER, ERIN R | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129911 | Anchor Structure | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100734 | LIGHT SENSOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | THATCHER, CLINT A | 56d overdue |
| 18100716 | LIGHT SENSOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GARBER, ERIN R | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18140692 | Optoelectronic Semiconductor Structure | SEVEN, EVREN | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18129911 | Anchor Structure | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 2813 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18100716 | LIGHT SENSOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GARBER, ERIN R | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 18100734 | LIGHT SENSOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
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