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
Serviço Nacional De Aprendizagem Industrial - Senai/Sc has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current prosecution efforts at the USPTO.
PLUMB, NIGEL H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count matches the total number of pending office actions, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload. The prosecution strategy is therefore dependent on the specific examination style of this individual within the single identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18449602 | INSPECTION TOOL AND SYSTEM FOR USE | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18449602 | INSPECTION TOOL AND SYSTEM FOR USE | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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