Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Vtip) currently faces 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, GBLENDE, JEFFREY A, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The 1 distinct art unit represents the administrative location for the company's current prosecution. Because 1 distinct examiner is handling the 1 pending office action, the evaluation of the claims is concentrated under one individual. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the full extent of the company's active matters. Practitioners should monitor if future applications are assigned to more than 1 distinct examiner or move beyond the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBLENDE, JEFFREY A | 1 | 85.8% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18167743 | POWER CONVERTER | GBLENDE, JEFFREY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18167743 | POWER CONVERTER | GBLENDE, JEFFREY A | 2838 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVirginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Vtip) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey A Gblende has the most, with 1 of Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Vtip)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
