Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ucl Business Limited has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution file rather than a distributed portfolio. NIGAM, NATASHA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
Because the pending work is concentrated with a single examiner and art unit, counsel can focus on one examination record and one technical classification. The immediate review should center on the outstanding action, the examiner’s stated objections, and whether claim amendments can resolve them without narrowing the commercial scope more than necessary.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 54.3% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850422 | Visual Field Sensitivity Testing | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850422 | Visual Field Sensitivity Testing | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850422 | Visual Field Sensitivity Testing | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUcl Business Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Natasha Nigam has the most, with 1 of Ucl Business Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
