Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tribosonics Limited currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among the distinct examiners, indicating that each application is being reviewed by a different person. However, all of these matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical focus of the applications is closely related, likely falling under a specialized category of semiconductor or optical technology.
The busiest examiner, NATH, SUMAN KUMAR, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is spread evenly across the examiners. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical arguments may be consistent due to the art unit, the communication style and individual preferences of the examiners must be managed. The focus on the distinct art unit may provide some predictability in terms of the prior art and legal standards applied to the pending office actions. This concentration is a key factor for the applicant to consider when developing a unified technical narrative.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | 1 | 82.7% | +22.5% |
| LEE, TYLER J | 1 | 91.8% | +6.7% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 84.2% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A FAILURE IN A FLUID PATH OF A FLUID SYSTEM | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843971 | Mixture Monitoring | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
| 18723168 | PROCESS MONITORING | LEE, TYLER J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A FAILURE IN A FLUID PATH OF A FLUID SYSTEM | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 6d |
| 18843971 | Mixture Monitoring | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843971 | Mixture Monitoring | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18723168 | PROCESS MONITORING | LEE, TYLER J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18273804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A FAILURE IN A FLUID PATH OF A FLUID SYSTEM | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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