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
Si Synergy Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution activity is highly concentrated, as evidenced by the 1 pending office action currently on record. This action represents the entirety of the active workload for the company at this stage, suggesting a very specific or streamlined filing strategy.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L. This examiner is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action assigned. Such a level of concentration means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the perspective and requirements of BARBEE, MANUEL L. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history and preferences of this individual.
Furthermore, the portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technical focus within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying standards across different art units or multiple examiners. The focus remains on the interactions with the assigned examiner within that art unit, allowing for a consistent approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBEE, MANUEL L | 1 | 81.7% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246094 | TRAINED AUTOENCODER, TRAINED AUTOENCODER GENERATION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246094 | TRAINED AUTOENCODER, TRAINED AUTOENCODER GENERATION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18246094 | TRAINED AUTOENCODER, TRAINED AUTOENCODER GENERATION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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