Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 10 clients • 13 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bruce Stone LLP specializes in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm has a career total of 1104 applications. Currently, there are 9 pending office actions, representing a focused active docket.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 84.31 percent. Notably, it achieves this with an average of only 1.61 office actions per allowance. This very low average suggests a highly efficient prosecution process with minimal rounds of negotiation in the semiconductor and optics fields. The 84.31 percent allowance rate shows a strong success rate in securing patents. With 9 pending actions, the firm's current workload is focused on a few active cases. Practitioners can look to the 1.61 average as a benchmark for rapid prosecution. The 1104 career applications provide the historical context for these efficiency and success metrics in its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASFAW, MESFIN T | 2 | 83.0% | +13.9% |
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
| NEGRON, ISMAEL | 1 | 73.5% | +15.1% |
| FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | 1 | 76.4% | +16.8% |
| SOROWAR, GOLAM | 1 | 81.4% | +17.9% |
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 1 | 85.9% | +3.2% |
| SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.3% | +25.8% |
| DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 1 | 62.5% | +23.2% |
| RAHMAN, MD ARIFUR | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078475 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND ALIGNMENT METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY PROCESSES | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 19078494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING MASK DEFORMATION | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 18963513 | LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON BLUETOOTH AND USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL AND METHOD THEREOF | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401776 | CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE | JEN, MINGJEN | 56d |
| 19218384 | GOGGLE STRUCTURE | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 62d |
| 19097831 | LIGHT TUBE WITH A MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL MEDIUM STRUCTURE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
| 18934170 | IC TESTING APPARATUS WITH ELASTIC CONDUCTIVE PILLARS AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| 18929515 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | — |
| 18597922 | STRAPPING TOOL | RAHMAN, MD ARIFUR | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610300 | DUAL PASS BAND FILTER ELEMENT | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 34d |
| 19218384 | GOGGLE STRUCTURE | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 62d |
| 19097831 | LIGHT TUBE WITH A MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL MEDIUM STRUCTURE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | — |
| 19078475 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND ALIGNMENT METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY PROCESSES | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 19078494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING MASK DEFORMATION | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 19059202 | LIGHTING DEVICE DRIVING POWER SUPPLY CAPABLE OF FORMING DUAL CLOSED LOOPS | FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | — |
| 18963513 | LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON BLUETOOTH AND USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL AND METHOD THEREOF | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18934170 | IC TESTING APPARATUS WITH ELASTIC CONDUCTIVE PILLARS AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Xiamen PVTECH | 3 |
| Lids Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. | 2 |
| NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | 2 |
| Argus Vision International | 1 |
| He Chou | 1 |
| Matatakitoyo Tool Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| VACTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 1 |
| Yang Bey Industrial Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| PIXART IMAGING INC. | 1 |
| E-Lead Electronic | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19218384 | GOGGLE STRUCTURE | Argus Vision International Limited | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | May 26, 2025 |
| 19097831 | LIGHT TUBE WITH A MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL MEDIUM STRUCTURE | Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19078475 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND ALIGNMENT METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY PROCESSES | Lids Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. | ASFAW, MESFIN T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 | |
| 19078494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING MASK DEFORMATION | Lids Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. | ASFAW, MESFIN T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 | |
| 19059202 | LIGHTING DEVICE DRIVING POWER SUPPLY CAPABLE OF FORMING DUAL CLOSED LOOPS | Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. | FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | 2844 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18963513 | LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON BLUETOOTH AND USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL AND METHOD THEREOF | Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. | SOROWAR, GOLAM | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 | |
| 18934170 | IC TESTING APPARATUS WITH ELASTIC CONDUCTIVE PILLARS AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | He Chou Technology Inc. | ZAKARIA, AKM | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18929515 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY | Newmax Technology Co., Ltd. | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18624138 | SMOOTH TORQUE TOOL | Matatakitoyo Tool Co., Ltd. | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18610300 | DUAL PASS BAND FILTER ELEMENT | VACTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES INC. | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18597922 | STRAPPING TOOL | Yang Bey Industrial Co., Ltd. | RAHMAN, MD ARIFUR | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18401776 | CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE | Pixart Imaging Inc. | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18484447 | OFF-AXIS DUAL MIRROR FOCUSING BACKLIGHT DISPLAY DEVICE AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE | E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd. | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18220281 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND HEAD-MOUNTED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Newmax Technology Co., Ltd. | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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