Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 3 distinct art units, reflecting the technical distribution of the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings. This distribution across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's active matters are subject to the specific standards of those assigned art units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAXTON, GARY L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner is part of the total 3 pending office actions. With 3 distinct examiners involved, practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across individual examiner preferences. The fact that LAXTON, GARY L handles this workload highlights the distribution of the current prosecution pipeline. This requires a strategy that accounts for the requirements of the 3 distinct examiners across the 3 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAXTON, GARY L | 1 | 86.5% | +5.7% |
| PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 1 | 77.7% | +12.7% |
| MIYOSHI, JESSE Y | 1 | 57.1% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991604 | Switching Regulator Implementing Negative Current Protection | LAXTON, GARY L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18335131 | RECESS POLY ESD DIODE FOR POWER MOSFET | MIYOSHI, JESSE Y | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509168 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR USING SENSEFET FOR BATTERY PROTECTION MODULE | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | — |
| 18335131 | RECESS POLY ESD DIODE FOR POWER MOSFET | MIYOSHI, JESSE Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991604 | Switching Regulator Implementing Negative Current Protection | LAXTON, GARY L | 2838 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 18509168 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR USING SENSEFET FOR BATTERY PROTECTION MODULE | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18335131 | RECESS POLY ESD DIODE FOR POWER MOSFET | MIYOSHI, JESSE Y | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Gary L Laxton has the most, with 1 of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
