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
The University Of Texas AT Dallas maintains 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very focused administrative footprint. This alignment suggests that the company's current patent efforts are concentrated on a specific technical advancement within the semiconductor sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is AGARED, GABRIEL T, who manages 1 pending office action. This examiner currently oversees all pending prosecution for the company's patent portfolio. Because the named official is the only examiner assigned to the case, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are entirely dependent on the review and internal practices of this specific individual.
The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a relatively low volume of active prosecution for the company. While this minimizes the complexity of managing multiple deadlines, it also means that the company's patent strategy is currently highly dependent on the results of this specific case. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of AGARED, GABRIEL T to optimize the response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGARED, GABRIEL T | 1 | 83.0% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18504427 | Actuation Devices Including Fast and Slow Actuators and Methods for Forming the Same | AGARED, GABRIEL T | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18504427 | Actuation Devices Including Fast and Slow Actuators and Methods for Forming the Same | AGARED, GABRIEL T | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18504427 | Actuation Devices Including Fast and Slow Actuators and Methods for Forming the Same | AGARED, GABRIEL T | 2846 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
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