Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ap Memory Technology Corporation has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 7 actions are being handled by 7 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending case is assigned to a different individual. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units, meaning the 7 distinct examiners are grouped into a smaller number of technical divisions.
The busiest examiner is GOODLING, DEVIN KIRK, who has 1 pending office action. This 1 action is a small portion of the 7 total pending office actions for the company. Because there are 7 distinct examiners for 7 actions, the applicant must navigate 7 different sets of examiner preferences. The 3 distinct art units suggest that while the examiners are different, they are concentrated within specific technical areas of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Managing 7 examiners across 3 art units requires a strategy that accounts for both individual examiner styles and art unit specific trends.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOODLING, DEVIN KIRK | 1 | — | — |
| AHMAD, KHAJA | 1 | 81.2% | +25.5% |
| ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 64.6% | +21.4% |
| VU, HUNG K | 1 | 87.6% | +9.4% |
| SLUTSKER, JULIA | 1 | 76.8% | +12.9% |
| LANDAU, MATTHEW C | 1 | 27.5% | +12.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18363645 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE | VU, HUNG K | 38d overdue |
| 18777444 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GOODLING, DEVIN KIRK | — |
| 18638705 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE | AHMAD, KHAJA | — |
| 18583156 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 17511190 | INTERPOSER STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | LANDAU, MATTHEW C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17721675 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 56d |
| 18638705 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE | AHMAD, KHAJA | — |
| 18583156 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 17511190 | INTERPOSER STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | LANDAU, MATTHEW C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2891 | 2 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777444 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GOODLING, DEVIN KIRK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18638705 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE | AHMAD, KHAJA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18583156 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 2893 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18363645 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE STRUCTURE | VU, HUNG K | 2897 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 17721675 | CAPACITOR STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17511190 | INTERPOSER STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | LANDAU, MATTHEW C | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2021 |
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