Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Southern Engineering S R O

Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Southern Engineering S R O has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 examiner, ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR, within 1 distinct art unit. ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The company's current pending workload is entirely focused on this single examiner and art unit, meaning there is no diversity in examiners or art units to manage for the company's current pending matters.

Practitioners should focus exclusively on the preferences and past decisions of this specific examiner within this art unit. There are no other pending cases to provide additional context or to require coordination. This profile represents a highly focused prosecution effort where the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests on the resolution of this 1 pending office action. The lack of other pending actions means that all resources can be directed toward this single interaction at the patent office to ensure a successful outcome for the company's semiconductor and optics innovations.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR 1 72.1% +14.5%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19473225 LIGHTING ELEMENT FOR SLIDING DOORS ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19473225 LIGHTING ELEMENT FOR SLIDING DOORS ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2875 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19473225 LIGHTING ELEMENT FOR SLIDING DOORS ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR 2875 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2025

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