Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
17 pending office actions • 9 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trinamix GmbH maintains a portfolio with 18 pending office actions focused in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is widely distributed, involving 18 distinct examiners. This relationship between the pending actions and the 18 distinct examiners suggests a lack of overlap across the company's current applications. The involvement of 18 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate a wide variety of individual examination styles and preferences.
The workload spans 9 distinct art units, while the prosecution involves the previously mentioned examiners. CUTLER, ALBERT H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they only handle 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 18 pending office actions are dispersed among the various examiners, requiring practitioners to adapt to many different individual prosecution styles. While the 9 distinct art units provide some level of administrative grouping, the high number of examiners relative to the pending office actions remains the defining characteristic of this portfolio's current state.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 + other | 3 (18%) |
| §103 only | 8 (47%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (35%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
| BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 1 | 75.7% | +29.9% |
| BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 1 | 74.2% | -6.5% |
| UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 1 | 79.2% | +21.7% |
| DHINGRA, PAWANDEEP | 1 | 60.3% | +16.3% |
| MCLEAN, NEIL R | 1 | 79.9% | +10.3% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
| BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 1 | 73.8% | +18.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833137 | SPECTROMETER WITH BUILT-IN CALIBRATION PATH | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 27d |
| 18873370 | TEMPERATURE DRIFT COMPENSATION OF PHOTORESISTORS | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
| 18841867 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTROMETER DEVICE | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
| 18833032 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING AN OBJECT FOR AUTHENTICATION | BURLESON, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18727747 | USER-TRAINED SYSTEM | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18697527 | STRUCTURED LIGHT PATTERN COMBINED WITH PROJECTION OF MARKERS | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | — |
| 18694722 | EXTENDED MATERIAL DETECTION INVOLVING A MULTI WAVELENGTH PROJECTOR | NOEL, JEMPSON | — |
| 18476720 | DETECTOR FOR OPTICALLY DETECTING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT | PATEL, SANJIV D | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697749 | EYE SAFETY FOR PROJECTORS | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 22d |
| 18833137 | SPECTROMETER WITH BUILT-IN CALIBRATION PATH | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 27d |
| 19103035 | SPECTROMETER DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INCIDENT RADIATION GENERATED BY AN OBJECT | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 18791510 | AUTHENTICATION OF A USER FOR ACCESS | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | — |
| 18729250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MATERIAL OF AN OBJECT | DHINGRA, PAWANDEEP | — |
| 18728129 | IMAGE MANIPULATION FOR MATERIAL INFORMATION DETERMINATION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
| 18727747 | USER-TRAINED SYSTEM | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 3 |
| 2681 | 2 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103035 | SPECTROMETER DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INCIDENT RADIATION GENERATED BY AN OBJECT | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18873370 | TEMPERATURE DRIFT COMPENSATION OF PHOTORESISTORS | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18841867 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTROMETER DEVICE | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18791510 | AUTHENTICATION OF A USER FOR ACCESS | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18833032 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING AN OBJECT FOR AUTHENTICATION | BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 2681 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18833137 | SPECTROMETER WITH BUILT-IN CALIBRATION PATH | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18729250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MATERIAL OF AN OBJECT | DHINGRA, PAWANDEEP | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18728129 | IMAGE MANIPULATION FOR MATERIAL INFORMATION DETERMINATION | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 2681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18727747 | USER-TRAINED SYSTEM | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18697749 | EYE SAFETY FOR PROJECTORS | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18697527 | STRUCTURED LIGHT PATTERN COMBINED WITH PROJECTION OF MARKERS | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18697235 | MEASURING THE HUMAN SKIN AGE THROUGH NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18694722 | EXTENDED MATERIAL DETECTION INVOLVING A MULTI WAVELENGTH PROJECTOR | NOEL, JEMPSON | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18685096 | EMITTER ARRAY WITH TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENTLY DRIVEN AREAS | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18684400 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A SPECTROMETER DEVICE | NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18476720 | DETECTOR FOR OPTICALLY DETECTING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18262305 | SINUSOIDAL LAMP DRIVER | LEE, WILSON | 2844 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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