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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wei Huang holds a patent portfolio situated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Current data shows 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, indicating a very specific point of contact within the USPTO. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for this portfolio's examination phase.
The busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio is MIKAILOFF, STEFAN, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the busiest examiner's pending workload for this entity. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution path is highly centralized. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific preferences and history of MIKAILOFF, STEFAN within the assigned art unit to advance the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIKAILOFF, STEFAN | 1 | 42.7% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489166 | CONICAL TURBINE HYDRAULIC MACHINE | MIKAILOFF, STEFAN | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18489166 | CONICAL TURBINE HYDRAULIC MACHINE | MIKAILOFF, STEFAN | 2834 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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