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
Tera-Print LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated in a single art unit. The portfolio's current activity is limited to this single point of prosecution, indicating a focused approach to its current patent filings. This concentration allows for a dedicated strategy toward a technical objective within the art unit involved.
The busiest examiner for Tera-Print LLC is ASFAW, MESFIN T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As there is only a single pending action total, ASFAW, MESFIN T is the sole examiner with whom the company is currently interacting. This relationship between the company and the examiner defines the current prosecution landscape. Practitioners can optimize their approach by analyzing the specific review style of ASFAW, MESFIN T, as no other examiners or art units are currently impacting the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASFAW, MESFIN T | 1 | 83.0% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736307 | HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY | ASFAW, MESFIN T | 44d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736307 | HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY | ASFAW, MESFIN T | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736307 | HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY | ASFAW, MESFIN T | 2882 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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