Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ablic Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, so examiner coverage is broader than art-unit coverage.
RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No single examiner accounts for a disproportionate share of the listed matters. The repeated art-unit presence creates an opportunity to identify recurring technical or claim-drafting issues while preserving examiner-specific response planning.
Counsel should organize the portfolio by art unit for issue spotting, then adapt amendments and arguments to the individual examiner records.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 7 (70%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.2% | +18.8% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.5% | +21.6% |
| JACKSON, STEPHEN W | 1 | 92.5% | +7.3% |
| CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 1 | 97.4% | +3.8% |
| BIRCH, EKATERINA THOMASA | 1 | — | — |
| PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 1 | 88.7% | +3.1% |
| FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 1 | 75.8% | +20.4% |
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 78.6% | +23.2% |
| NGO, MEAGAN N | 1 | 58.3% | +33.7% |
| DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 1 | 20.0% | +54.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023394 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JACKSON, STEPHEN W | — |
| 18497990 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17705690 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 71d |
| 19023403 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17705690 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 71d |
| 19060762 | OUTPUT CONTROL CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING REGULATOR INCLUDING THE SAME | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
| 19043539 | VERTICAL HALL ELEMENT | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18190939 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | — |
| 18183164 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| 17958421 | SENSOR, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND DETECTION METHOD | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 4 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060762 | OUTPUT CONTROL CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING REGULATOR INCLUDING THE SAME | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2025 |
| 19043539 | VERTICAL HALL ELEMENT | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19023394 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JACKSON, STEPHEN W | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19023403 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18505418 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BIRCH, EKATERINA THOMASA | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18497990 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18190939 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18183164 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 17958421 | SENSOR, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND DETECTION METHOD | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2022 |
| 17705690 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 2188 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAblic Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Carlos O Rivera-Perez has the most, with 1 of Ablic Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
