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 • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZKW Group GmbH currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow technical focus for these specific filings. The pending actions are distributed across distinct examiners, suggesting that no single individual is handling a majority of the current workload. This ratio between examiners and pending actions may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
ALEXANDER K GARLEN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing a portion of the workload. This action represents the maximum workload assigned to any individual examiner among the distinct examiners involved. The presence of multiple distinct examiners for only 3 pending office actions shows a lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners should note that while the technology area is Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, the entire pending portfolio remains within 1 distinct art unit, which might centralize the technical expertise required for review.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | 1 | 66.1% | +42.4% |
| CHAN, WEI | 1 | 74.6% | +13.8% |
| PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.2% | +26.5% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19416680 | PRIMARY OPTICS FOR A LIGHT MODULE OF A VEHICLE HEADLAMP | GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | — |
| 19197119 | Method for Configuring a Lamp for a Vehicle and Lamp for a Vehicle | CHAN, WEI | — |
| 19098405 | LAMP FOR A VEHICLE AND A VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19416680 | PRIMARY OPTICS FOR A LIGHT MODULE OF A VEHICLE HEADLAMP | GARLEN, ALEXANDER K | 2875 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
| 19197119 | Method for Configuring a Lamp for a Vehicle and Lamp for a Vehicle | CHAN, WEI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19098405 | LAMP FOR A VEHICLE AND A VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
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