Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Utopus Insights Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution indicates a broad range of examiner perspectives on the company's current semiconductor filings. LAU, TUNG S is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is consistent with the 4 pending office actions being spread individually across the 4 distinct examiners.
The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units. Since there are 4 distinct examiners but only 3 distinct art units, multiple examiners are working within the same art unit for this company. This structure requires the company to manage 4 separate examiner relationships across 3 different art units. For a practitioner, this means that success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector depends on reconciling the feedback from 4 distinct examiners who are operating within a limited set of 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 1 | 29.3% | +37.3% |
| TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 1 | 74.4% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399538 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING LIGHTNING THREATS TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS | LAU, TUNG S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET HEALTH RISK INFORMATION | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 59d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET HEALTH RISK INFORMATION | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 59d overdue |
| 18493607 | CONTROLLING WIND TURBINE | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 5d overdue |
| 18399538 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING LIGHTNING THREATS TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 2 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18399538 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING LIGHTNING THREATS TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18540452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET HEALTH RISK INFORMATION | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18493607 | CONTROLLING WIND TURBINE | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 2857 | DP | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUtopus Insights Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Tung S Lau has the most, with 1 of Utopus Insights Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
