Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Via Separations Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 pending actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a balanced distribution of cases. The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SPIES, BRADLEY R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 pending action, the workload is evenly split across the assigned personnel. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's 2 pending office actions.
The fact that 2 pending office actions are handled by multiple examiners within a single art unit suggests a consistent technical environment but with different individual perspectives. Practitioners should prepare for the examiners to bring their own interpretations to the cases. This structure requires a tailored approach for each matter, even though they are both reviewed within the same art unit in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1 | 74.2% | +20.5% |
| AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 1 | 76.6% | +22.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117722 | APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF GRAPHENE OXIDE COATINGS | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 11d overdue |
| 18907083 | HEAT EXCHANGER INTEGRATION WITH MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR EVAPORATOR PRE-CONCENTRATION | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18907083 | HEAT EXCHANGER INTEGRATION WITH MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR EVAPORATOR PRE-CONCENTRATION | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18117722 | APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF GRAPHENE OXIDE COATINGS | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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