Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wickon Hightech GmbH manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, but they are both housed within a single art unit. The use of 1 distinct art unit for the pending actions indicates a high degree of technical similarity between the applications.
FABIAN JR, ROBERTO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions and multiple distinct examiners, FABIAN JR, ROBERTO is responsible for a portion of the company's active prosecution. This arrangement shows that the company's semiconductor-related filings are being examined by different individuals within the same specialized group at the patent office. This concentration in a single unit suggests a focused technical scope for the current filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
| FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 1 | 71.6% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693993 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 34d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694001 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 26d overdue |
| 18693993 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693993 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694001 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAULTS | FABIAN JR, ROBERTO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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