Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
TMEIC Corporation currently has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical concentration. The company is working with a group of distinct examiners where each pending action is assigned to a different individual. AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though this role involves only 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 1 | 83.9% | +13.7% |
| MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 87.8% | +6.3% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836901 | VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19163884 | STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | — |
| 18728227 | PAINTING PROTECTOR AND CUBICLE USING THE SAME | ING, MATTHEW W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19163884 | STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19163884 | STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 18836901 | VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18728227 | PAINTING PROTECTOR AND CUBICLE USING THE SAME | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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