Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sigma Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. RAKOWSKI, CARA E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused and singular active matter within the company's current portfolio.
The presence of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current patent strategy is concentrated on a single outcome. The practitioner can focus on the specific examination style of RAKOWSKI, CARA E without the distraction of other pending matters. In the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field, this kind of focus allows for a very detailed and technical interaction with the 1 distinct art unit involved.
This lean prosecution profile, with 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, indicates a very specific stage of portfolio development. The company is not currently spreading its resources across multiple examiners or art units, which simplifies the management of its intellectual property. The result of this 1 pending matter will be the sole measure of the company's current success at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 1 | 65.2% | +7.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971487 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971487 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSigma Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Cara E Rakowski has the most, with 1 of Sigma Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
