Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thermo Fisher Scientific S P A is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For a company often associated with laboratory equipment, this activity in the Communications sector indicates a specific technological focus, possibly related to data transmission. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit means the prosecution is being handled by a specialized group within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KOETH, MICHELLE M, who is handling the 1 pending office action. The company's active prosecution is currently limited to this single point of contact, with no other examiners reviewing pending matters for this entity. Because the busiest examiner is responsible for only 1 pending office action, the current volume of activity is low. This allows for a direct and focused prosecution strategy, though it ties the current success of the portfolio to the findings of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOETH, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692748 | PROCESS FOR ANALYZING OF A LIQUID SAMPLE WITH BUBBLE DETECTION | KOETH, MICHELLE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692748 | PROCESS FOR ANALYZING OF A LIQUID SAMPLE WITH BUBBLE DETECTION | KOETH, MICHELLE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692748 | PROCESS FOR ANALYZING OF A LIQUID SAMPLE WITH BUBBLE DETECTION | KOETH, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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