Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Superfeet Worldwide, LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, COMBER, KEVIN J, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates the technical focus of the current application.
With COMBER, KEVIN J handling 1 pending office action, the company's interaction with the patent office is limited to the 1 distinct examiner. This concentration allows for a prosecution strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the examiner. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further shows that the pending workload is not dispersed across different sections of the patent office.
The data shows a prosecution profile where the metrics for distinct examiners and art units are limited. This structure means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will determine the company's immediate success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Practitioners can focus on the specific examination style and art unit standards applicable to the 1 pending office action. Navigating the current prosecution environment provides a streamlined path for the company to address any rejections or objections raised during the review of its pending matter.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 42d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
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