Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tyco Electronics - Simel has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific focus for the company's current patent activity, with all examination efforts directed toward a single technical niche. This concentration allows the company to focus its prosecution resources on the specific requirements and trends of this individual examiner.
MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entire pending volume of the portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit shows that the examination is occurring within a single specialized technical group. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination trends of this art unit to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively and ensure a thorough response to the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics inquiry.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 1 | 65.6% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543427 | Fixing Bolt and Method for Fixing a Stranded Conductor Wire | MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543427 | Fixing Bolt and Method for Fixing a Stranded Conductor Wire | MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18543427 | Fixing Bolt and Method for Fixing a Stranded Conductor Wire | MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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