Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amphenol Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio involves 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so each matter has a separate examiner while several matters share examination-group coverage. This pattern calls for individual examiner monitoring supported by art-unit-level issue analysis.
MAYO III, WILLIAM H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The workload is broadly distributed rather than concentrated with one examiner. Counsel should maintain a unified technical and claim-position record, while tailoring responses to the distinct examiner assignments and identifying recurring issues within the shared art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 1 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
| LEE, PETE T | 1 | 75.0% | +11.0% |
| HARCUM, MARCUS E | 1 | 89.4% | +5.5% |
| PATEL, TULSIDAS C | 1 | 43.1% | +21.8% |
| FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 1 | 58.1% | +14.8% |
| JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 1 | 40.0% | -7.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819396 | ELECTRICAL SOCKET WITH CONTOURED CONTACT BEAMS | HARCUM, MARCUS E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039547 | CABLE WITH VARIABLE PITCH | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | — |
| 18783915 | 212 GBPS+ CABLE CONNECTOR | PATEL, TULSIDAS C | — |
| 18449520 | HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 2 |
| 2831 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039547 | CABLE WITH VARIABLE PITCH | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | 2847 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18819396 | ELECTRICAL SOCKET WITH CONTOURED CONTACT BEAMS | HARCUM, MARCUS E | 2831 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18783915 | 212 GBPS+ CABLE CONNECTOR | PATEL, TULSIDAS C | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18449520 | HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 2831 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18095756 | CABLE REEL WITH AXIALLY ADJUSTABLE COUPLING MECHANISM | JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAmphenol Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
William H Mayo III has the most, with 1 of Amphenol Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
