Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mindful IP PLLC operates as a patent law firm in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm has handled 174 career applications and achieved a resolved allowance rate of 94.78 percent. Prosecution is efficient, requiring an average of 2.42 office actions per allowance.
There are 3 pending office actions currently under management. The 2.42 average office actions per allowance suggests a direct path to grant, indicating that the firm often overcomes rejections in a limited number of cycles. This performance is established across 174 career applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
The 94.78 percent allowance rate indicates a very high success rate for resolved matters. Practitioners can expect an effective prosecution process given the 2.42 average office actions per allowance. With 3 pending office actions, the firm remains active in securing patent rights for semiconductor and optical technologies.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHELLE J | 1 | 39.8% | +60.2% |
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.5% |
| DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 1 | 62.5% | +23.2% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| LIN, ARIC | 1 | 59.8% | +12.4% |
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 1 | 51.7% | +25.3% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038063 | LASER SCANNER | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19098238 | SPLINT ARRANGEMENT | LEE, MICHELLE J | — |
| 18268235 | PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17772228 | IMPURITY-CENTER-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTER | LIN, ARIC | 28d overdue |
| 19098238 | SPLINT ARRANGEMENT | LEE, MICHELLE J | — |
| 18702849 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FREE SPACE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | — |
| 17761286 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FLUID HEATER | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | — |
| 17619302 | METHOD OF GENERATING A DETERMINISTIC COLOR CENTER IN A DIAMOND | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Zoller & Fröhlich | 2 |
| Quantum Technologies Ug (Haftungsbeschränkt) | 2 |
| Colenski LLC | 1 |
| ELMOS Semiconductor SE | 1 |
| Dbk David + Baader GmbH | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19098238 | SPLINT ARRANGEMENT | Colenski LLC | LEE, MICHELLE J | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18268235 | PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY | ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH | HELLNER, MARK | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 | |
| 18702849 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FREE SPACE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION | Elmos Semiconductor SE | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18038063 | LASER SCANNER | ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 17772228 | IMPURITY-CENTER-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTER | Quantum Technologies Ug (Haftungsbeschränkt) | LIN, ARIC | 2851 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17761286 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FLUID HEATER | Dbk David + Baader GmbH | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17619302 | METHOD OF GENERATING A DETERMINISTIC COLOR CENTER IN A DIAMOND | Quantum Technologies Ug (Haftungsbeschränkt) | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
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