Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ruggiero McAllister & McMahon LLC - Hubbell has managed 2983 career applications within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 94.28 percent, which indicates a high level of success in securing patent grants for its clients. This success is achieved through a prosecution process that averages 3.6 office actions per allowance, suggesting a willingness to engage in multiple rounds of negotiation with the USPTO to overcome rejections.
Currently, the firm has 7 pending office actions to address. This low volume of active matters relative to its 2983 career applications may reflect a focused or maturing portfolio. The combination of a 94.28 percent allowance rate and 3.6 office actions per allowance demonstrates that while the firm is effective at obtaining patents, the path to allowance often involves significant examiner interaction. Practitioners can expect a thorough but ultimately successful prosecution cycle when working in these technical fields. The firm's historical data provides a clear benchmark for the effort and time required to achieve a patent grant in the semiconductor sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRONE, JASON D | 1 | 61.9% | +25.3% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
| THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 82.6% | -17.8% |
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.2% | +24.6% |
| JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 73.0% | +20.8% |
| GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 29.6% | +37.7% |
| LE, THANH TAM T | 1 | 86.4% | +13.8% |
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 1 | 36.9% | +30.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18052688 | BREAKAWAY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LE, THANH TAM T | 24d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18354141 | SURFACE MOUNTED ELECTRICAL DEVICE SUPPORT ASSEMBLIES | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 4d overdue |
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | 20d |
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 18361859 | ELECTRICAL SET SCREW CONNECTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | — |
| 18168112 | UTILITY COVER AND LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERGROUND ENCLOSURE MADE WITH LONG FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18052688 | BREAKAWAY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LE, THANH TAM T | 24d overdue |
| 18354141 | SURFACE MOUNTED ELECTRICAL DEVICE SUPPORT ASSEMBLIES | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 4d overdue |
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | 20d |
| 18327949 | COMPRESSIVE TERMINAL PAD MOUNTING FACE | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 57d |
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 18168112 | UTILITY COVER AND LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERGROUND ENCLOSURE MADE WITH LONG FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 17504843 | CUTTING TOOL FOR CABLE SHEATHING | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Hubbell | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. | PRONE, JASON D | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 | |
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | Hubbell Power Systems Inc. | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 11, 2024 |
| 18361859 | ELECTRICAL SET SCREW CONNECTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Hubbell Incorporated | THOMPSON, TIMOTHY J | 2847 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2023 |
| 18354141 | SURFACE MOUNTED ELECTRICAL DEVICE SUPPORT ASSEMBLIES | Hubbell Incorporated | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 3631 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18327949 | COMPRESSIVE TERMINAL PAD MOUNTING FACE | Hubbell Incorporated | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18168112 | UTILITY COVER AND LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERGROUND ENCLOSURE MADE WITH LONG FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | Hubbell Incorporated | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 18052688 | BREAKAWAY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | Hubbell Incorporated | LE, THANH TAM T | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17504843 | CUTTING TOOL FOR CABLE SHEATHING | Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2021 |
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