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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhuhai Ninestar Information Technology Co. Ltd. manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently handling a matter for the company. This distribution provides the company with various points of contact within the patent office. Practitioners can expect varied perspectives even though the subject matter remains within a single technical field.
All pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings, as all matters are being reviewed within the same specialized group. BRASE, SANDRA L is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since each of the examiners holds a matter, the workload is perfectly balanced across the individuals assigned to this single art unit. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company's current semiconductor and optics innovations are closely related in their technical classification.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRASE, SANDRA L | 1 | 92.1% | -2.5% |
| NGO, HOANG X | 1 | 93.7% | +6.7% |
| CHEN, SOPHIA S | 1 | 95.7% | +4.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054774 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE | NGO, HOANG X | 19d |
| 19013526 | PROCESSING CARTRIDGE | CHEN, SOPHIA S | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097595 | DRUM UNIT AND PROCESSING CARTRIDGE | BRASE, SANDRA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097595 | DRUM UNIT AND PROCESSING CARTRIDGE | BRASE, SANDRA L | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19054774 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE | NGO, HOANG X | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19013526 | PROCESSING CARTRIDGE | CHEN, SOPHIA S | 2852 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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