Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suncall Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which means that every active case is under the review of a different official. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technical focus is divided between two specialized areas within the semiconductor and optics fields.
MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split among the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that no single examiner's style will dominate the company's prosecution results. Practitioners must prepare for separate sets of examiner preferences across the 2 distinct art units. Success will require a tailored approach for each individual examiner to address the specific technical requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved in the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 85.9% | +13.9% |
| ISLA, RICHARD | 1 | 77.3% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090567 | CRACK DETECTION METHOD FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND CRACK DETECTION DEVICE FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090567 | CRACK DETECTION METHOD FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND CRACK DETECTION DEVICE FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 18756917 | CURRENT DETECTOR | ISLA, RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090567 | CRACK DETECTION METHOD FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND CRACK DETECTION DEVICE FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18756917 | CURRENT DETECTOR | ISLA, RICHARD | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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