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
Sick Engineering GmbH is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution profile is currently limited to a single active matter in a specific technical field. This concentration suggests that the company is focusing its current resources on a specific application rather than a broad portfolio of pending cases.
JAMEL E WILLIAMS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This represents the total pending workload for the company. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action indicates that all current patent office interaction is concentrated with one individual. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's immediate prosecution in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area depends on the specific review standards of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 1 | 88.8% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411318 | Measurement apparatus and method for measuring an energy quantity flow transported by means of a liquefied natural gas flow | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18411318 | Measurement apparatus and method for measuring an energy quantity flow transported by means of a liquefied natural gas flow | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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