Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 pending office actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, yet all are consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical subject matter remains consistent across the company's current filings. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit, as its internal policies will likely influence all 3 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners each managing a portion of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is balanced across the individual reviewers. This distribution ensures that the company's progress in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area is subject to multiple perspectives. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners handles the workload, the company can test different arguments across the 1 distinct art unit simultaneously.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.6% | +33.5% |
| NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 1 | 86.0% | +11.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19057253 | OPTICAL PULSE TESTER AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18667097 | VOLTAGE AND CURRENT GENERATOR | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917680 | OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER AND PROGRAM | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 9d |
| 19057253 | OPTICAL PULSE TESTER AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18667097 | VOLTAGE AND CURRENT GENERATOR | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057253 | OPTICAL PULSE TESTER AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18917680 | OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER AND PROGRAM | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18667097 | VOLTAGE AND CURRENT GENERATOR | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
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