Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trumpf Lasersystems For Semiconductor Manufacturing GmbH has 1 pending office action in its portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NIU, XINNING. The data shows 0 distinct art units for this pending matter, reflecting a concentrated prosecution environment for the company's current patent application. This concentration suggests that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated within a very specific technical niche.
NIU, XINNING is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This represents the total current pending activity for the company. The presence of only one examiner and 0 distinct art units suggests a very narrow technical scope for the current filing, allowing the company to focus its resources on this single examination path and the specific style of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIU, XINNING | 1 | 82.6% | +4.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542802 | CO2 BEAM SOURCE COMPRISING A CATALYST | NIU, XINNING | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542802 | CO2 BEAM SOURCE COMPRISING A CATALYST | NIU, XINNING | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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