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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Apaltek Co. Ltd. maintains 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct art unit, reflecting a highly focused point of prosecution. SEAN P GRAMLING is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the active case. With only a distinct examiner involved, the current prosecution activity is centralized under a single individual at the office.
The presence of the pending office action in the distinct art unit suggests that the company's current interactions with the office are limited to a specific technical niche. Practitioners can observe that SEAN P GRAMLING is responsible for the entirety of the pending workload, as he holds the only active matter. This streamlined profile indicates a lack of diversity in both the technical classification and the examining personnel for the company's active matters. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is maintained through this single point of contact within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAMLING, SEAN P | 1 | 66.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19414987 | HEAT DISSIPATOR WITH REPLACEABLE DECORATIVE PATTERN | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19414987 | HEAT DISSIPATOR WITH REPLACEABLE DECORATIVE PATTERN | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19414987 | HEAT DISSIPATOR WITH REPLACEABLE DECORATIVE PATTERN | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
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