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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trioptics GmbH is managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, so each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company must address 3 different sets of examiner expectations for the 3 pending office actions.
The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners. AKBAR HASSAN RIZVI is the busiest examiner for the company, currently holding 1 pending office action. This profile suggests that while the current filings are technically similar enough to be in 1 distinct art unit, they are being processed by 3 different individuals. For practitioners, this requires a consistent technical argument within that 1 distinct art unit, while adapting the procedural approach to the 3 distinct examiners who are each handling 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 1 | 87.9% | +15.2% |
| CROCKETT, RYAN M | 1 | 78.8% | +5.4% |
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089666 | OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945205 | HOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HOLDING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR THE TESTING THEREOF | CROCKETT, RYAN M | — |
| 18811637 | TESTING DEVICE FOR AN OPTICAL SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN OPTICAL SAMPLE | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089666 | OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089666 | OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN OPTICAL TESTING DEVICE | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18945205 | HOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HOLDING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR THE TESTING THEREOF | CROCKETT, RYAN M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18811637 | TESTING DEVICE FOR AN OPTICAL SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN OPTICAL SAMPLE | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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