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
Zhongshan Huayuan Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, Ismael Negron, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is active in a distinct art unit, representing a highly specific and singular point of review.
For the practitioner, this means that the entire current workload is concentrated under a distinct examiner. There is no need to manage multiple timelines or differing examiner preferences. The strategy for the 1 pending office action can be entirely tailored to Ismael Negron's specific approach to semiconductor and optics technology within the art unit involved.
The reliance on a single examiner for the company's 1 pending action makes the relationship with that examiner critical. The legal team should focus on the technical standards of the art unit to ensure that the response is aligned with local practices. This focused effort is the most efficient way to move the company's current intellectual property through the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEGRON, ISMAEL | 1 | 73.5% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668643 | MOSQUITO-TRAPPING LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, ELECTRIC MOSQUITO SWATTER AND MOSQUITO KILLER | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668643 | MOSQUITO-TRAPPING LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, ELECTRIC MOSQUITO SWATTER AND MOSQUITO KILLER | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668643 | MOSQUITO-TRAPPING LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, ELECTRIC MOSQUITO SWATTER AND MOSQUITO KILLER | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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