Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokamak Energy Ltd currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 pending actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each examiner is handling a single case for the company. The portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's semiconductor-related innovations cover several different technical sub-categories.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is AZAM, MUHAMMED, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners is assigned exactly 1 pending action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the identified personnel. This distribution means that no single examiner holds a disproportionate influence over the company's current prosecution efforts.
The presence of 3 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests a relatively diverse range of technical focuses within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area. Practitioners should note that with multiple examiners involved, the company must navigate different individual examination styles. This decentralized structure requires a customized prosecution strategy for each case to account for the specific tendencies of the examiners and the 3 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZAM, MUHAMMED | 1 | 86.7% | +11.1% |
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
| TRAN, MINH | 1 | 86.3% | +15.9% |
| SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1 | 55.1% | +12.5% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893688 | FLEXIBLE HTS CURRENT LEADS | AZAM, MUHAMMED | — |
| 18707522 | PASSIVE COOLANT MANAGEMENT | TRAN, MINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249619 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR FIELD COIL | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893688 | FLEXIBLE HTS CURRENT LEADS | AZAM, MUHAMMED | — |
| 18728477 | EVAPORATION PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 18707522 | PASSIVE COOLANT MANAGEMENT | TRAN, MINH | — |
| 18555695 | GRADED INTERLAYER | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | — |
| 18249619 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR FIELD COIL | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18893688 | FLEXIBLE HTS CURRENT LEADS | AZAM, MUHAMMED | 2847 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18728477 | EVAPORATION PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18707522 | PASSIVE COOLANT MANAGEMENT | TRAN, MINH | 3646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18555695 | GRADED INTERLAYER | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18249619 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR FIELD COIL | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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