Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
SL Corporation currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are split across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active prosecution is divided among several technical classifications. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations in this sector are being evaluated by 4 different specialized groups within the patent office, requiring an understanding of various art unit practices.
The workload involves 4 distinct examiners. PEERCE, MATTHEW J is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that PEERCE, MATTHEW J handles 2 of the company's 5 total pending actions, while the remaining actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. With 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the prosecution is relatively decentralized. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the preferences of PEERCE, MATTHEW J, while also being prepared for the different perspectives of the other examiners across the 4 art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2 | 68.2% | +26.5% |
| AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1 | 16.7% | +5.7% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 46.3% | +54.5% |
| BEATTY, COLLIN X | 1 | 82.1% | +14.2% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929237 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A VEHICLE INTERIOR STERILIZATION APPARATUS | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1d overdue |
| 18504765 | PATTERN ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROWETTING DEVICE | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 14d |
| 19199728 | VEHICLE LAMP | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 27d |
| 18167213 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410976 | STERILIZATION DEVICE | LEE, AHAM NMN | 9d |
| 18504765 | PATTERN ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROWETTING DEVICE | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 14d |
| 19199728 | VEHICLE LAMP | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 27d |
| 19044217 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE AND VEHICLE LAMP COMPRISING SAME | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 69d |
| 18167213 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 2 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199728 | VEHICLE LAMP | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19044217 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE AND VEHICLE LAMP COMPRISING SAME | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18929237 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A VEHICLE INTERIOR STERILIZATION APPARATUS | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18410976 | STERILIZATION DEVICE | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18504765 | PATTERN ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROWETTING DEVICE | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18167213 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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