Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiant Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each of the pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different organizational unit.
VU, JIMMY T is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending office actions. With the distinct examiners and art units involved, the company's current prosecution in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is decentralized across the patent office's examination resources.
The distribution of the 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units ensures that each matter is reviewed by a specialized group. VU, JIMMY T is responsible for the single pending office action assigned to them. This arrangement requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, JIMMY T | 1 | 86.5% | +7.5% |
| SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 1 | 83.4% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916091 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF LIGHTING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION | VU, JIMMY T | 28d |
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2844 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18916091 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF LIGHTING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION | VU, JIMMY T | 2844 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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