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
Technische Universität Chemnitz has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution footprint is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a narrow range of current activity. Kevin V Quinto is identified as the busiest examiner, holding the pending office action.
Because the total number of pending actions matches the busiest examiner's workload, all active matters are currently handled by this individual. This concentration means that the outcome of the university's current semiconductor filings depends entirely on the interactions within this specific art unit. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the assigned examiner's history.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINTO, KEVIN V | 1 | 85.0% | +1.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562429 | STRESS-CONFIGURABLE NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENT STRUCTURE, INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENT STRUCTURE | QUINTO, KEVIN V | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562429 | STRESS-CONFIGURABLE NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENT STRUCTURE, INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENT STRUCTURE | QUINTO, KEVIN V | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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