Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different examiner, as evidenced by the 3 distinct examiners currently reviewing the portfolio. This distribution of actions and examiners suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored to separate individual preferences. Navigating these distinct examiners requires an approach to semiconductor and circuit patenting to ensure consistent results across the portfolio.
The workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, matching the number of pending office actions. ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that no single art unit or examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for the company, requiring a broad approach to managing these filings. With multiple art units involved, the company must address the specific technical requirements of different specialized groups within the patent office while maintaining a strategy for their semiconductor innovations.
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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 1 | 68.8% | +19.5% |
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| MARINI, MATTHEW G | 1 | 60.5% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15485174 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE INCORPORATING A COMPUTER DEVICE | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 80d overdue |
| 19275086 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275086 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 2857 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 18635587 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM FOR TESTING A PAVEMENT MATERIAL SAMPLE | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 15485174 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE INCORPORATING A COMPUTER DEVICE | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2017 |
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