Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 4 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ablic Inc. has 11 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. ULARISLAO CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 pending actions. The use of 10 distinct examiners for 11 pending office actions indicates that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
The 4 distinct art units suggest that the company's semiconductor and circuit innovations are categorized into several different technical groups at the USPTO. This distribution requires the company to manage interactions with a wide range of examiners across multiple specialized units. With 11 pending office actions, the company is in an active stage of patent prosecution. The fact that 10 distinct examiners are involved means that the company's legal team must be prepared for diverse examination perspectives. The concentration of 11 actions within 4 distinct art units provides some technical focus, yet the variety of examiners ensures that the prosecution experience is not uniform across the portfolio.
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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.4% | +19.6% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| JACKSON, STEPHEN W | 1 | 92.5% | +7.3% |
| YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | 1 | 73.5% | +5.4% |
| BIRCH, EKATERINA THOMASA | 1 | — | — |
| FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 1 | 73.3% | +22.2% |
| ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | 1 | 84.2% | +24.0% |
| DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 1 | 18.8% | +70.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023394 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JACKSON, STEPHEN W | — |
| 18607590 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
| 17974474 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 | — |
| 18607583 | DC-DC CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18607590 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
| 18607583 | DC-DC CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | — |
| 18190939 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | — |
| 17974474 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2817 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2025 |
| 19043539 | VERTICAL HALL ELEMENT | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19023403 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19023394 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JACKSON, STEPHEN W | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19021102 | MAGNETIC SENSOR CIRCUIT | YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18607590 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18607583 | DC-DC CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18505418 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BIRCH, EKATERINA THOMASA | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18190939 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17974474 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 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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