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
Xaar Technology Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current filings. This concentration implies that the pending applications share closely related technological characteristics and are being evaluated by the same specialized group at the patent office.
The workload is split between 2 distinct examiners. KYRA MELOR VAN KREUNINGEN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, meaning the pending matters are distributed equally across the involved examiners. Because the number of examiners matches the number of actions, each official is currently reviewing a single application for the company. This distribution ensures that no individual examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current pending semiconductor 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN KREUNINGEN, KYRA MELOR | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 1 | 79.1% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848428 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DROPLET DEPOSITION | VAN KREUNINGEN, KYRA MELOR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566368 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER FOR A DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 150d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566368 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER FOR A DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 150d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848428 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DROPLET DEPOSITION | VAN KREUNINGEN, KYRA MELOR | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18566368 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER FOR A DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 2853 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 150d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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