Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
ULTRATEC, INC. currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are handled by only 2 distinct examiners, indicating a high concentration of work among a very small group of individuals. Furthermore, all 6 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a very focused prosecution environment at the patent office.
LISA HASHEM is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 5 pending office actions. This means that a single examiner is reviewing nearly all of the company's active matters. With 6 pending office actions in total, the influence of LISA HASHEM on the portfolio's current progress is substantial. The remaining 1 pending office action is handled by the only other distinct examiner involved.
The concentration of 6 actions in 1 art unit and the fact that 5 are with one examiner, LISA HASHEM, provides the company with a highly centralized examination experience. This structure may allow for more consistent arguments and outcomes across the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and history of this primary examiner, as they oversee the vast majority of the company's pending communications filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASHEM, LISA | 5 | 75.1% | +12.0% |
| PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 1 | 82.6% | +12.5% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.0% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18396162 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | YIP, JACK | 12d |
| 18981828 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18975587 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18967917 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18943527 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18911427 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981828 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18975587 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18967917 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18943527 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18911427 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18396162 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
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