Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
TriEye Ltd. is developing a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions, indicating a multi-track prosecution strategy. This level of activity suggests that the company is simultaneously advancing multiple technological components within the optics and semiconductor fields, reflecting a broader scope of intellectual property development.
The examination of these applications is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This variety indicates that the portfolio technical scope is broad enough to trigger reviews from different specialized divisions within the patent office. Managing 2 art units requires the applicant to address potentially different examination cultures and technical priorities, which can influence the overall timeline for securing patent rights.
HAGAN, SEAN P is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between different officials. This distribution means that the company overall patent strategy must be flexible enough to handle the distinct approaches of multiple examiners at the same time, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents only a portion of the active portfolio.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.4% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.0% | +40.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17464715 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SKIN LIQUID LEVELS ESTIMATION | YOON, CHANEL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17638219 | NOVEL PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 17464715 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SKIN LIQUID LEVELS ESTIMATION | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17638219 | NOVEL PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASER | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2022 |
| 17464715 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SKIN LIQUID LEVELS ESTIMATION | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2021 |
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