Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Amphenol Corporation

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
57% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TRUC T 1 87.3% +7.2%
PATEL, TULSIDAS C 1 42.3% +22.0%
MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN 1 89.3% +14.0%
MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE 1 63.8% +16.9%
FIGUEROA, FELIX O 1 58.0% +14.4%
LE, THANH TAM T 1 86.5% +13.8%
JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 1 53.3% +50.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19353517 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HIGH SPEED MOUNTING INTERFACE NGUYEN, TRUC T 36d

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18344110 INTERPOSER WITH CONTACT RETENTION WITH HEAT STAKE LE, THANH TAM T 10d overdue
18636002 DUST TOLERANT CONNECTORS MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN
18592364 EASILY MAINTAINABLE I/O CONNECTOR CONFIGURED FOR CABLE CONNECTION TO A MIDBOARD MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18344110 INTERPOSER WITH CONTACT RETENTION WITH HEAT STAKE LE, THANH TAM T 10d overdue
18095756 CABLE REEL WITH AXIALLY ADJUSTABLE COUPLING MECHANISM JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 19d
18783915 212 GBPS+ CABLE CONNECTOR PATEL, TULSIDAS C
18636002 DUST TOLERANT CONNECTORS MOUNTAIN, JEFFREY WIGHTMAN
18592364 EASILY MAINTAINABLE I/O CONNECTOR CONFIGURED FOR CABLE CONNECTION TO A MIDBOARD MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE
18449520 HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR FIGUEROA, FELIX O

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 2
2831 2
3654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19353517 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HIGH SPEED MOUNTING INTERFACE NGUYEN, TRUC T 2834 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Oct 08, 2025
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
18592364 EASILY MAINTAINABLE I/O CONNECTOR CONFIGURED FOR CABLE CONNECTION TO A MIDBOARD MANGOT, GREGORY LAWRENCE 2834 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18449520 HIGH PERFORMANCE CABLE CONNECTOR FIGUEROA, FELIX O 2831 §103 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
18095756 CABLE REEL WITH AXIALLY ADJUSTABLE COUPLING MECHANISM JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 3654 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jan 11, 2023

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