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
Wavesense Engineering GmbH manages a company patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This reflects a very specific and centralized prosecution effort for the company's current applications.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, consistent with the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio. NATASHA NIGAM is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for all active technical reviews.
Practitioners should note that the outcome of the current pending matter rests entirely with NATASHA NIGAM. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is specialized and not currently spread across different examination groups. This structure simplifies the tracking of the portfolio, as there is only 1 pending office action to monitor within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830128 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | NIGAM, NATASHA | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830128 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | NIGAM, NATASHA | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17830128 | OPTICAL APPARATUS | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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