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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
United Protective Technologies LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This indicates a focused intellectual property strategy within this high-technology sector, likely targeting specific advancements in semiconductor or optical components.
The examination of these filings is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. The reliance on 1 distinct art unit indicates that the active portfolio does not span multiple technological classifications at the patent office, which can streamline the prosecution process. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific standards and precedents relevant to this single unit.
ANTHONY W MEGNA FUENTES is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire active workload of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. As a result, the current prosecution success for the company is tied to the review process of this specific examiner. This singular focus allows for a direct and consistent line of communication during the examination phase.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 1 | 81.3% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823582 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH VELOCITY EROSION | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823582 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH VELOCITY EROSION | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823582 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH VELOCITY EROSION | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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