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
Zhejiang Shenwei Electric Co. Ltd. operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This alignment indicates a very focused prosecution effort in the semiconductor field, with no active cases currently spread across other units at the USPTO.
COTEY, PHILIP L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's immediate success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector hinges on the outcome of this 1 pending office action. The prosecution strategy is currently not diversified across multiple examiners.
For practitioners, this data shows that the company's interaction with the USPTO is centralized. The involvement of COTEY, PHILIP L as the sole examiner means that the company must address the specific technical requirements of 1 distinct art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending workload represents the total active docket, requiring a targeted approach to this specific examination process to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18228804 | BLUETOOTH THERMOMETER | COTEY, PHILIP L | 43d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18228804 | BLUETOOTH THERMOMETER | COTEY, PHILIP L | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18228804 | BLUETOOTH THERMOMETER | COTEY, PHILIP L | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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