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
Yaskawa America Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This reflects a specific technical focus for the company's current patent activity. For the applicant, this means the entire success of the current portfolio rests on a single thread of interaction within the USPTO. The concentration in a single technology area further emphasizes the specialized nature of these filings.
Jennifer Christine Caulk is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit, the prosecution process is centralized. This lack of variety in examiners and art units means the outcome of the current portfolio depends on the interactions with this specific official. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination history and preferences of this examiner, as there are no other pending matters to provide alternative paths to allowance. Navigating this single relationship is the central task for the company's legal representatives.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18451867 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS, THREE-LEVEL INVERTER, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THREE-LEVEL INVERTER | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18451867 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS, THREE-LEVEL INVERTER, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THREE-LEVEL INVERTER | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 2838 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
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