Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Suzhou Yinguan Semiconductor Technology Co. Ltd. maintains 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. Prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests a singular point of contact within the patent office for the company's current applications. Such a focused examination environment often leads to more consistent feedback, as the applicant only needs to address the technical interpretations of 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can benefit from this concentration by developing a strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the assigned examiner.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STCLAIR, ANDREW D, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company. The concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner allows for a more direct dialogue during prosecution, potentially simplifying the process of reaching an agreement on claim scope within the Computing & Software sector. Because the company's active matters are confined to 1 distinct examiner, the overall prosecution strategy remains highly streamlined and focused on the requirements of this specific official.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16958193 | DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 917d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16958193 | DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 917d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16958193 | DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 917d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2020 |
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