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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
VRB Energy Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution focus is entirely on this matter. The matching counts of 1 examiner, 1 art unit, and 1 action mean that the company's current USPTO activity is centralized. Practitioners only need to address the specific requirements of the assigned examiner within that art unit to move the case forward. This scope of pending activity reduces the complexity of managing multiple deadlines or different examiner requirements across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The art unit assignment provides a technical framework for the pending case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 1 | 69.0% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777117 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTROLYTE MONITORING, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777117 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTROLYTE MONITORING, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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