Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Towa Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's prosecution activity is currently limited to this single pending matter, which allows for a highly focused legal strategy. This structure minimizes the administrative complexity of managing multiple filings across different technical divisions of the patent office.
THOMAS, LUCY M is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action. The company's immediate patent efforts are focused on the review of this specific examiner within the semiconductor field. For the practitioner, success in this matter depends on a deep understanding of the historical tendencies and preferences of THOMAS, LUCY M. There are no other pending actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area to balance the risk of this single prosecution track.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, LUCY M | 1 | 62.4% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERCURRENT PROTECTION USING DYNAMIC TRIP CURVE EVALUATION | THOMAS, LUCY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERCURRENT PROTECTION USING DYNAMIC TRIP CURVE EVALUATION | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERCURRENT PROTECTION USING DYNAMIC TRIP CURVE EVALUATION | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTowa Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lucy M Thomas has the most, with 1 of Towa Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
