Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zpe Licensing Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination assignments.
BENNETT, GEORGE B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Responses should be tracked separately because the pending work is distributed across examiner and art-unit contexts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, GEORGE B | 1 | 79.6% | +10.8% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 33.5% | +26.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922149 | SIZING TOOL FOR BELT | BENNETT, GEORGE B | — |
| 18415351 | PULLER FOR PULLEY OF SUPERCHARGER | ENGLISH, PETER C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922149 | SIZING TOOL FOR BELT | BENNETT, GEORGE B | 2855 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18415351 | PULLER FOR PULLEY OF SUPERCHARGER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZpe Licensing Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
George B Bennett has the most, with 1 of Zpe Licensing Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
