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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viken Detection Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This 1 action constitutes the entire active workload for the company at the patent office. The technical focus is restricted to this one area for all currently pending matters identified in the data.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent efforts are being evaluated by a single individual within one specialized group. This lack of distribution means that the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to a single administrative path and a single point of review.
KIM, KIHO is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, KIM, KIHO is responsible for the whole of the company's current prosecution. Practitioners will find that all active matters for this entity are consolidated under this one examiner 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, KIHO | 1 | 85.4% | +4.5% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
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