Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wicue Usa Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio's active matters are split between a corresponding number of 2 distinct examiners and a matching count of distinct art units, showing a diversified examination path for the company's current filings. This suggests that the company is pursuing at least two distinct technical innovations that fall under different classifications within the semiconductor and optics field. Such a spread can be beneficial as it prevents the entire portfolio from being subject to the same examiner's scrutiny.
RAKOWSKI, CARA E is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given the total volume of pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the examiners, with each handling exactly one action. This lack of concentration means the company must tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific feedback of different examiners across the distinct art units involved. Managing these separate examination tracks requires a flexible approach to address the unique requirements of each individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 1 | 65.0% | +7.0% |
| PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1 | 54.4% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263343 | LIQUID CRYSTAL FILM FOR AUTOMOTIVE GLASS | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18435732 | DELAYED DIMMING DEVICE AND DIMMING EYEGLASSES | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18263343 | LIQUID CRYSTAL FILM FOR AUTOMOTIVE GLASS | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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