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
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Ecublens) SARL has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent activity is focused on a single technical matter within a specific department of the USPTO.
MAURICE C SMITH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for the company's current pending prosecution activity. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the current patent strategy in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field depends on the specific examination style of MAURICE C SMITH and the guidelines of the art unit.
Because there is 1 pending office action, there is no distribution of work across different examiners. The company's immediate patent goals are centralized within this one proceeding. This focused approach means that the practitioner can devote all resources to addressing the specific requirements of the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in the case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859964 | SPARK STAND FOR OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY WITH IMPROVED DUST REMOVAL | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859964 | SPARK STAND FOR OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY WITH IMPROVED DUST REMOVAL | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
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