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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tecat Technologies (Suzhou) Limited has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent activity is focused on this single active case, which suggests a highly targeted approach to its intellectual property in this field. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural requirements and examination trends of that particular office division.
BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner for the 1 pending office action, this individual oversees the entire active portfolio. This concentration within one art unit and under one examiner simplifies the communication path for the applicant. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific preferences of this examiner, as their evaluation will determine the outcome for the entire active portfolio. The administrative requirements are simplified because the company only needs to navigate the procedural culture of one specific division.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 1 | 78.8% | +4.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18522398 | PROBE CARD STRUCTURE | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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