Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Absolics Inc. has 10 pending office actions concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are organized within 4 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technology is specialized, the applications are reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office. Each of the actions is being handled by a different person, as there are 10 distinct examiners currently assigned to the portfolio, which necessitates a high degree of coordination to ensure consistent messaging.
SHAMIM AHMED is listed as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With the distinct examiners and only 4 distinct art units, multiple examiners are likely working within the same art units. This distribution requires the company to maintain internal consistency in its responses to ensure that arguments made to an examiner do not conflict with those made to others in the same technology area. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics across the art units indicates a technically focused intellectual property strategy that relies on the input of different examiners.
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 | 4 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, SHAMIM | 1 | 78.4% | +22.2% |
| BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 1 | 78.2% | +17.2% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED | 1 | 75.0% | +4.0% |
| BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 1 | — | — |
| VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 1 | 67.5% | +20.6% |
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1 | 52.3% | +2.1% |
| SABUR, ALIA | 1 | 74.6% | +6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661211 | SUBSTRATE WITH EMBEDDED ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 77d |
| 18896867 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGING SUBSTRATE USING THE SAME | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
| 18814566 | SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661211 | SUBSTRATE WITH EMBEDDED ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 77d |
| 18963535 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A PACKAGING SUBSTRATE | AHMED, SHAMIM | — |
| 18946926 | PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE COMPRISING THE SAME | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2896 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963535 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A PACKAGING SUBSTRATE | AHMED, SHAMIM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18946926 | PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE COMPRISING THE SAME | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18896867 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGING SUBSTRATE USING THE SAME | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18830630 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGING SUBSTRATE USING THE SAME | MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18814566 | SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2024 |
| 18661211 | SUBSTRATE WITH EMBEDDED ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 2896 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18575061 | SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGE SUBSTRATE COMPRISING THE SAME | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18458159 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PACKAGING SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGING SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | SABUR, ALIA | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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