Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amphenol Corporation maintains a portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 6 pending office actions. These 6 actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending case is under the review of a different person. This ratio of examiners to actions suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration in the company's current prosecution efforts. For the practitioner, this means that each case must be argued on its own merits without the benefit of a single examiner's familiarity with the broader portfolio.
Despite the variety of examiners, all prosecution activity is centered within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, LEE, PETE T, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with no single examiner managing more than 1 action. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical focus for these pending matters, even as the company navigates the individual requirements of 6 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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, PETE T | 1 | 75.0% | +10.8% |
| HARCUM, MARCUS E | 1 | 89.3% | +5.6% |
| PATEL, TULSIDAS C | 1 | 42.6% | +21.2% |
| MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN | 1 | 89.8% | +13.0% |
| FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 1 | 57.9% | +14.5% |
| LE, THANH TAM T | 1 | 86.4% | +13.8% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344110 | INTERPOSER WITH CONTACT RETENTION WITH HEAT STAKE | LE, THANH TAM T | 10d overdue |
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | — |
| 18636002 | DUST TOLERANT CONNECTORS | MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344110 | INTERPOSER WITH CONTACT RETENTION WITH HEAT STAKE | LE, THANH TAM T | 10d overdue |
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | — |
| 18783915 | 212 GBPS+ CABLE CONNECTOR | PATEL, TULSIDAS C | — |
| 18636002 | DUST TOLERANT CONNECTORS | MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN | — |
| 18449520 | HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18978442 | BACKPLANE FOOTPRINT FOR HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS | LEE, PETE T | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18819396 | ELECTRICAL SOCKET WITH CONTOURED CONTACT BEAMS | HARCUM, MARCUS E | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18783915 | 212 GBPS+ CABLE CONNECTOR | PATEL, TULSIDAS C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18636002 | DUST TOLERANT CONNECTORS | MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18449520 | HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 2831 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18344110 | INTERPOSER WITH CONTACT RETENTION WITH HEAT STAKE | LE, THANH TAM T | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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