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
Shuyou (Shanghai)Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a very focused or limited current prosecution phase. The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the technical subject matter is highly specific and fits within a single specialized examination group.
MIKELS, MATTHEW serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, MIKELS, MATTHEW is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This creates a situation where the immediate success of the portfolio's prosecution in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector relies on the specific interactions with this 1 examiner.
With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current legal strategy is highly centralized. Practitioners working on this portfolio do not need to worry about conflicting examiner requirements across different units. Instead, they can focus entirely on the 1 pending office action under the review of MIKELS, MATTHEW to achieve their intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIKELS, MATTHEW | 1 | 81.1% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248102 | RFID TAG ASSEMBLY AND OBJECT TO BE IDENTIFIED INCLUDING RFID TAG ASSEMBLY | MIKELS, MATTHEW | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248102 | RFID TAG ASSEMBLY AND OBJECT TO BE IDENTIFIED INCLUDING RFID TAG ASSEMBLY | MIKELS, MATTHEW | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248102 | RFID TAG ASSEMBLY AND OBJECT TO BE IDENTIFIED INCLUDING RFID TAG ASSEMBLY | MIKELS, MATTHEW | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
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