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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UVEX ARBEITSSCHUTZ GMBH has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's current prosecution activity is concentrated with a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts, with no active matters currently distributed across other areas of the patent office. This centralization allows for a streamlined communication process with the patent office.
The busiest examiner, HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure accounts for the total pending workload for the company. Because this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current workload, the prosecution strategy should be tailored to this individual's specific review style. The involvement of only a single distinct art unit further centralizes the administrative process for the company's current filings, meaning that the outcome of this prosecution cycle is entirely dependent on this single channel of review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486658 | GLASSES | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 16d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486658 | GLASSES | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18486658 | GLASSES | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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