Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Akidaia is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The narrow distribution suggests a highly focused prosecution phase for the company's current intellectual property portfolio, with all activity contained in a single administrative niche at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is KIM, TAE W, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action represents the total of 1 pending office actions for the firm. Practitioners can expect a centralized interaction given that all activity resides with a single examiner and art unit. This lack of variety in personnel and administrative units simplifies the tracking of procedural deadlines and examiner-specific preferences.
With 1 pending office action total, the portfolio does not show signs of broad systemic delays across multiple departments. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current patent efforts are not yet diversified across different examination teams. This focused approach allows for a direct response strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, TAE W | 1 | 54.8% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716811 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN AREA TO BE SECURED, AND ASSOCIATED INITIALISATION METHOD | KIM, TAE W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716811 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN AREA TO BE SECURED, AND ASSOCIATED INITIALISATION METHOD | KIM, TAE W | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAkidaia has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tae W Kim has the most, with 1 of Akidaia's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
