Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual in a different technical unit. This separation of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners provides a variety of feedback on the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner, MERLIN, JESSICA M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the company, with the other action handled by the other distinct examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests that the subject matter is diverse enough to require different specialized reviews within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Managing 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that can address the unique requirements of each pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397095 | HEATED CAMERAS AND RELATED METHODS | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17961128 | ANNULAR CRYOCOOLER COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 5d |
| 18397095 | HEATED CAMERAS AND RELATED METHODS | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18397095 | HEATED CAMERAS AND RELATED METHODS | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 17961128 | ANNULAR CRYOCOOLER COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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