Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asmpt Singapore Pte. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is concentrated in a few specific technical groups. However, the prosecution is handled by 6 distinct examiners, meaning that each of the 6 pending office actions is assigned to a different person.
PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 6 distinct examiners managing 6 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed, and no single examiner holds a majority of the cases. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is focused, the individual examiner perspectives will vary significantly.
Practitioners should note that the 3 distinct art units provide some level of organizational consistency, but the use of 6 distinct examiners necessitates a case-by-case approach. Since PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A only has 1 busiest examiner pending action, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's feedback across multiple pending matters. Each of the 6 pending office actions must be prosecuted based on its own merits and the specific tendencies of its assigned examiner.
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.
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.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1 | 73.9% | +13.1% |
| BUTLER, KEVIN C | 1 | 89.5% | +8.8% |
| STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 88.4% | +8.8% |
| TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 1 | 76.0% | +26.1% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 1 | — | — |
| PAGE, HANA C | 1 | 60.3% | +32.8% |
| WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 1 | 70.9% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505154 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED DEVICE PACKAGES | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 5d |
| 18811865 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES | BUTLER, KEVIN C | — |
| 18675376 | INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR BONDING LENSES TO IMAGE SENSORS | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17989775 | HYBRID BONDING OF A THIN SEMICONDUCTOR DIE | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 31d overdue |
| 18505154 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED DEVICE PACKAGES | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 5d |
| 18139611 | PICKING AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT FROM A REUSABLE ADHESIVE TAPE | PAGE, HANA C | 39d |
| 18915665 | DECOUPLED FLOATING BONDING STAGE | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915665 | DECOUPLED FLOATING BONDING STAGE | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18811865 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES | BUTLER, KEVIN C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18675376 | INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR BONDING LENSES TO IMAGE SENSORS | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18505154 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED DEVICE PACKAGES | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 2899 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18373373 | BONDING MACHINE BOND HEAD HAVING SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18139611 | PICKING AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT FROM A REUSABLE ADHESIVE TAPE | PAGE, HANA C | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 17989775 | HYBRID BONDING OF A THIN SEMICONDUCTOR DIE | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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