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
Useful Sensors Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This case is situated within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused examination process for the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current patent office activity is highly concentrated. BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS handles 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is the total volume of pending matters. The 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical area of focus. For the 1 pending office action, the applicant will interact solely with BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS, whose review will determine the immediate progress of the application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 1 | 90.3% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646967 | SURFACE IDENTIFICATION SENSOR USING REFLECTED LIGHT AND MACHINE LEARNING | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 43d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646967 | SURFACE IDENTIFICATION SENSOR USING REFLECTED LIGHT AND MACHINE LEARNING | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18646967 | SURFACE IDENTIFICATION SENSOR USING REFLECTED LIGHT AND MACHINE LEARNING | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 2884 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
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