Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universite Clermont Auvergne has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LYONS, MICHAEL A is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
Each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's current filings in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area cover different technical topics. Managing the pending office actions across separate art units requires the university to address different sets of technical and procedural standards simultaneously.
LYONS, MICHAEL A is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents half of the pending portfolio. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the university's prosecution is not concentrated under a single official. This fragmented structure means that the outcome of one pending office action may not necessarily influence the other, as they are being handled by different examiners in different technical sections of the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +10.0% |
| NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1 | 82.5% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879395 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ATTENUATION OF A LIGHT WAVE PASSING THROUGH A SAMPLING VOLUME | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17922247 | PROCESS FOR FLUORINATION OF AN LLZO GARNET | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 100d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879395 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ATTENUATION OF A LIGHT WAVE PASSING THROUGH A SAMPLING VOLUME | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879395 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE ATTENUATION OF A LIGHT WAVE PASSING THROUGH A SAMPLING VOLUME | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 17922247 | PROCESS FOR FLUORINATION OF AN LLZO GARNET | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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