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 Sunnyverse Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RICKEL, ALEX PARK. Because this individual is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's current prosecution is entirely centralized. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the review is localized within a single technical division.
For the practitioner, this means the outcome of the 1 pending office action depends on the specific interpretation of RICKEL, ALEX PARK. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there is no opportunity to compare different examiner perspectives within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the company's total current workload at the patent office, requiring a focused response to this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 70.9% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518957 | ILLUMINATION ASSEMBLY, DISPLAY LIGHT MACHINE, AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18518957 | ILLUMINATION ASSEMBLY, DISPLAY LIGHT MACHINE, AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2023 |
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