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
The UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER has 1 pending office action currently active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a focused technical scope for the university's current patent efforts in the semiconductor and optics sectors. The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, ensuring that the institution's legal interactions are concentrated with 1 point of contact.
The busiest examiner for the university is CHEN, PATRICK C, who is managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total pending workload of the university in this specific technology area, which simplifies the coordination of responses and the development of a cohesive legal strategy. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical requirements and examination criteria are likely to remain stable throughout the process. This streamlined prosecution profile is beneficial for maintaining consistency in how the university's innovations are presented and defended. The data indicates a direct and singular path for the university's current applications, with no distribution across different examiners or art units to manage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, PATRICK C | 1 | 82.5% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866870 | LINEAR ACCELERATOR SYSTEM | CHEN, PATRICK C | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866870 | LINEAR ACCELERATOR SYSTEM | CHEN, PATRICK C | 2842 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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