Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Marine Biological Laboratory is managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between distinct examiners, ensuring that each application receives an independent review. The actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, centralizing the technical review process.
The busiest examiner, PAN, JIA X, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents a part of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the laboratory. Having distinct examiners in the 1 distinct art unit suggests that while the technical field is narrow, the laboratory must manage different examiner approaches.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAN, JIA X | 1 | 72.5% | +37.1% |
| DUDEK, JAMES A | 1 | 82.2% | +3.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832643 | INSTANT POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPE | DUDEK, JAMES A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835794 | NANOSTRUCTURED BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND MICROSCOPES WITH NANOSTRUCTURED BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL ELEMENTS | PAN, JIA X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835794 | NANOSTRUCTURED BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND MICROSCOPES WITH NANOSTRUCTURED BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL ELEMENTS | PAN, JIA X | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18832643 | INSTANT POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPE | DUDEK, JAMES A | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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