Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Star Technologies Inc. has a patent portfolio concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently requiring attention from the company's legal representatives. These 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates that multiple filings or multiple stages of an application are being processed by the same individual. This can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in claim language and examiner arguments across the portfolio.
The prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a high degree of technical similarity between the pending applications. BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This matches the total 2 pending office actions for the portfolio, showing that all current examiner-level work is centralized under the review of BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN. Practitioners should analyze his previous actions on these cases to identify any recurring rejections or preferences that could impact the overall success of the company's filings within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2 | 78.8% | +4.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18395072 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PROBE CARDS | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18395072 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PROBE CARDS | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18541001 | PROBE CARD STRUCTURE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY TEST AND TESTING METHOD THEREOF | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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