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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weg Equipamentos Elétricos S.A. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus for the portfolio at this stage. The current volume of 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the company's active engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is GUGGER, SEAN A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This alignment between the total workload and the responsibility of a single examiner suggests that the current prosecution activity is localized to a specific set of claims within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the entirety of the current workload, requiring a focused response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.9% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821638 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR STATORS OF ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINES, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COOLING PLATE AND CORRESPONDING ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18821638 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR STATORS OF ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINES, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COOLING PLATE AND CORRESPONDING ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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