Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aaltosemi Inc. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently faces 3 pending office actions, which are distributed across 3 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that each examiner is currently reviewing a different application within the portfolio, as the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single individual.
The prosecution landscape involves 2 distinct art units, indicating technical variety within the semiconductor field. JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA is noted as the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed across the 3 distinct examiners currently engaged with the company's filings, ensuring that multiple perspectives are involved in the review process.
The presence of 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a coordinated approach to prosecution. While JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA handles 1 pending office action, the remaining actions are managed by other examiners within the 2 distinct art units. This structure necessitates familiarity with the specific preferences of multiple examiners within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector to manage the portfolio effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | 1 | 79.3% | +8.7% |
| BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 1 | 78.2% | +17.2% |
| TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 94.5% | +2.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456736 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | 23d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394736 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763608 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18394736 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §102 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18456736 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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