Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shockwatch Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within the assigned art unit indicates a specific technical focus for the pending applications, where all active matters are subject to the same divisional oversight.
Raymond Londale Nimox is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The active actions are split between the examiners involved in the company's prosecution, ensuring that the workload is evenly distributed. Each examiner is responsible for one active matter, which allows for a focused review of each application.
The reliance on a single art unit means that the company's success in this technology area hinges on overcoming the specific hurdles raised within that division. However, having multiple examiners provides some variation in the review process. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific concerns of each examiner to resolve the active matters efficiently while maintaining a consistent technical narrative within the 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 1 | 70.6% | +10.0% |
| QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 1 | 70.4% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408856 | TILT INDICATOR | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408856 | TILT INDICATOR | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 42d |
| 19001958 | IMPACT INDICATOR | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001958 | IMPACT INDICATOR | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18408856 | TILT INDICATOR | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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