Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stl Technology Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The presence of 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners indicates a broad distribution of the company's current patent applications across the office.
MANG, LAL C is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners each handling a single matter, the workload is split across the portfolio. The presence of 3 distinct art units further emphasizes the diversity of the technical review process for the company's semiconductor and optical innovations.
For a practitioner, managing the active workload across multiple art units requires balancing different sets of examiner expectations. Because no single examiner handles more than 1 pending office action, the portfolio lacks a central point of influence. The prosecution strategy must be uniquely adapted for each of the distinct examiners and their respective art units within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANG, LAL C | 1 | 76.0% | +17.2% |
| SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1 | — | — |
| DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN | 1 | — | — |
| THOMAS, BRENT C | 1 | 50.2% | +25.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220617 | ESTIMATION METHOD FOR STATE OF HEALTH OF BATTERY | MANG, LAL C | 28d |
| 18220642 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING HEAT-SINK STRUCTURE | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220617 | ESTIMATION METHOD FOR STATE OF HEALTH OF BATTERY | MANG, LAL C | 28d |
| 18077023 | BATTERY SYSTEM HAVING HEAT-DISSIPATION CIRCULATION STRUCTURE | THOMAS, BRENT C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18220617 | ESTIMATION METHOD FOR STATE OF HEALTH OF BATTERY | MANG, LAL C | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18220642 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING HEAT-SINK STRUCTURE | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1727 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18113084 | BATTERY EQUIPMENT DISCHARGE BLANCING METHOD | DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18077023 | BATTERY SYSTEM HAVING HEAT-DISSIPATION CIRCULATION STRUCTURE | THOMAS, BRENT C | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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