Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 9 clients • 14 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP focuses on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 1097 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 84.73. There are 14 pending office actions currently being handled. The 1097 career applications show the firm's experience in this technical domain.
The average office actions per allowance for this firm is 3.05. This metric helps practitioners understand the typical number of interactions with the patent office required to reach an allowance in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The 84.73 resolved allowance rate pct is a key indicator of the firm's effectiveness in securing patent rights. With 14 pending office actions, the firm continues its work in this specialized field. These statistics provide a data-driven summary of the firm's historical performance and current activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (73%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERSON, ERIK T | 2 | 76.5% | +11.0% |
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.2% | +17.3% |
| LAZO, THOMAS E | 1 | 86.8% | +8.9% |
| SHAH, UTPAL D | 1 | 87.9% | +11.3% |
| CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 1 | 86.9% | +8.5% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 84.4% | +8.2% |
| BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 51.8% | +45.2% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 1 | 80.9% | +23.9% |
| DEMETER, HILINA K | 1 | 72.1% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | KOCH, GEORGE R | 126d overdue |
| 18010456 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | PETERSON, ERIK T | 84d overdue |
| 17925490 | HIGH PRECISION NANOSCALE THIN FILM FABRICATION PROCESSES | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 72d overdue |
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | KINGDON, CATHY | 24d overdue |
| 18399150 | DYNAMIC BASKETBALL GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 33d |
| 18865042 | RECONFIGURABLE WORKSPACE SOFT GRIPPER | LAZO, THOMAS E | — |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18729159 | SCRAP DATA ANALYSIS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | KOCH, GEORGE R | 126d overdue |
| 18010456 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | PETERSON, ERIK T | 84d overdue |
| 18399150 | DYNAMIC BASKETBALL GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 33d |
| 18510891 | AUTOMATED HUMAN MESH AND SKELETON GENERATION AND ANIMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | DEMETER, HILINA K | 57d |
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18708316 | POLYMERIC FLAME RETARDANT SYNERGIST AND THE METHOD OF PRODUCING IT AND ITS FORMULATION FOR POLYAMIDES | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18132324 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | PETERSON, ERIK T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| University of Texas | 5 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | 3 |
| SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN | 1 |
| Sortera Technologies Inc. | 1 |
| AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH | 1 |
| Jumpshot Inc. | 1 |
| Groove Jones, LLC | 1 |
| SDS Nano, Inc. | 1 |
| ams-OSRAM | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | Texas State University | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18865042 | RECONFIGURABLE WORKSPACE SOFT GRIPPER | Singapore University Of Technology And Design | LAZO, THOMAS E | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | Texas State University | SHAH, UTPAL D | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 | |
| 18729159 | SCRAP DATA ANALYSIS | Sortera Technologies Inc. | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18728885 | HIGH-PRECISION HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2024 | |
| 18708316 | POLYMERIC FLAME RETARDANT SYNERGIST AND THE METHOD OF PRODUCING IT AND ITS FORMULATION FOR POLYAMIDES | Agency for Science, Technology and Research | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 | |
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18399150 | DYNAMIC BASKETBALL GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD | Jumpshot Inc. | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18510891 | AUTOMATED HUMAN MESH AND SKELETON GENERATION AND ANIMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | Groove Jones, LLC | DEMETER, HILINA K | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18132324 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18010456 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17925490 | HIGH PRECISION NANOSCALE THIN FILM FABRICATION PROCESSES | Sds Nano, Inc. | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17923473 | NANOFABRICATION OF COLLAPSE-FREE HIGH ASPECT RATIO NANOSTRUCTURES | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | KIM, JAHAE | 2897 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | Texas State University | KINGDON, CATHY | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17789166 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | AMS-OSRAM AG | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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