Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tlc Millimeter Wave Products Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending application is being reviewed independently. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company must prepare for different examination styles for each of its 2 pending office actions, rather than relying on a single point of contact.
The workload is also split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the 2 pending office actions cover different technical sub-sectors within the broader field. DAVIS, CYNTHIA L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the prosecution effort is not concentrated under a single individual, as the 2 distinct examiners share the workload equally.
For a practitioner, navigating 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to prosecution. Since DAVIS, CYNTHIA L only handles 1 pending office action, the company cannot rely on a single point of contact for its Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio. Instead, the strategy must account for the specific standards of 2 different art units and the individual tendencies of 2 distinct examiners to achieve successful outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 83d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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