Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stahls' Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. CULLER, JILL E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 2 pending actions in total, the workload is distributed across the 2 distinct examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the actions indicates that each pending matter falls into a different technical category within the semiconductor and optics field. Each of the 2 distinct examiners handles a single action, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's technology. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the semiconductor filings cover multiple technical sections of the patent office. This structure requires the company to manage interactions with 2 different examiners across 2 separate art units. CULLER, JILL E is one of the 2 distinct examiners handling the pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULLER, JILL E | 1 | 57.2% | +13.9% |
| SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1 | 65.1% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19362751 | PRESS PROJECTION ALIGNMENT SYSTEM | CULLER, JILL E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777509 | CAP LOGO APPLICATOR | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 5d overdue |
| 19362751 | PRESS PROJECTION ALIGNMENT SYSTEM | CULLER, JILL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19362751 | PRESS PROJECTION ALIGNMENT SYSTEM | CULLER, JILL E | 2853 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 18777509 | CAP LOGO APPLICATOR | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1745 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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