Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhongshan Union Optech Research Institute Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the company's semiconductor research spans multiple administrative classifications, suggesting a variety of technical focuses. The assigned art units represent the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
REISNER, NOAM S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split between the assigned officials. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the maximum workload for any individual examiner in this portfolio. The distinct examiners confirm that the prosecution is shared across multiple individuals at the office.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REISNER, NOAM S | 1 | 74.1% | -8.7% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417260 | LENS STRUCTURE, PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FOCUSING METHOD OF LENS | REISNER, NOAM S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527808 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18417260 | LENS STRUCTURE, PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FOCUSING METHOD OF LENS | REISNER, NOAM S | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18527808 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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