Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amotech Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating fully dispersed examiner assignments with limited art-unit repetition. The profile favors centralized docket control and unit-level review for recurring technical practices.
ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration is identified. Counsel should tailor each response to the relevant semiconductor, circuit, or optics disclosure while using the shared art-unit exposure to inform, not replace, application-specific prosecution analysis.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, BENNY T | 1 | 87.4% | +25.3% |
| DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 1 | 78.3% | +16.5% |
| SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 1 | 68.4% | +19.7% |
| RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | 1 | 74.6% | +20.5% |
| BACK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 80.2% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797100 | COMBO ANTENNA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725761 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 49d overdue |
| 19116274 | MULTILAYERED COMMON MODE FILTER | LEE, BENNY T | — |
| 18880247 | ANTENNA PATTERN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | — |
| 18550924 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SILICON NITRIDE POWDER FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE AND SILICON NITRIDE POWDER PREPARED THEREBY | ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725761 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 49d overdue |
| 18725788 | MULTILAYERED CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 30d |
| 19116274 | MULTILAYERED COMMON MODE FILTER | LEE, BENNY T | — |
| 18880247 | ANTENNA PATTERN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | — |
| 18550924 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SILICON NITRIDE POWDER FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE AND SILICON NITRIDE POWDER PREPARED THEREBY | ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | — |
| 17797100 | COMBO ANTENNA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 2 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2848 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19116274 | MULTILAYERED COMMON MODE FILTER | LEE, BENNY T | 2842 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18880247 | ANTENNA PATTERN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18725788 | MULTILAYERED CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 2848 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18725761 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2024 |
| 18550924 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SILICON NITRIDE POWDER FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE AND SILICON NITRIDE POWDER PREPARED THEREBY | ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17797100 | COMBO ANTENNA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BACK, AUSTIN M | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAmotech Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Benny T Lee has the most, with 1 of Amotech Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
