Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are spread across 9 examiners and 6 art units, creating a broad and structurally varied prosecution docket. The examiner distribution shows that the workload is not concentrated in a single examination relationship, while the art-unit spread indicates multiple technical or classification contexts.
NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is a limited portion of the overall docket, so counsel should use examiner-specific preparation rather than a single portfolio-wide response model. At the same time, applications sharing an art unit may offer useful internal reference points for claim drafting and amendment strategy.
Effective management will require coordinated tracking of prosecution positions, technical declarations, and recurring prior-art issues. A common invention narrative can improve consistency, but each application should retain flexibility for its assigned examiner and art unit.
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 | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 2 | 45.1% | +55.7% |
| HEADLY, MELISSA A | 1 | 75.1% | +41.0% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 45.7% | +40.3% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 62.7% | +21.6% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.6% | +35.2% |
| LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1 | 60.6% | +29.3% |
| YU, YUECHUAN | 1 | 66.4% | +19.7% |
| KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1 | 44.0% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 8d overdue |
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3d overdue |
| 18722085 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING DEVICE AND EXHAUST SYSTEM THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | — |
| 18713043 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND BASE | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18701860 | PROCESSING CHAMBER, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING METHOD | FORD, NATHAN K | — |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | — |
| 18576984 | COIL DEVICE FOR GENERATING PLASMA AND SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | YU, YUECHUAN | — |
| 18390612 | BIAS MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS EQUIPMENT | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 8d overdue |
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3d overdue |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 28d |
| 18725498 | TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE | HEADLY, MELISSA A | — |
| 18722085 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING DEVICE AND EXHAUST SYSTEM THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | — |
| 18713043 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND BASE | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18701860 | PROCESSING CHAMBER, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING METHOD | FORD, NATHAN K | — |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 4 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| 2197 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725498 | TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE | HEADLY, MELISSA A | 2197 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18722085 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING DEVICE AND EXHAUST SYSTEM THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18713043 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND BASE | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18701860 | PROCESSING CHAMBER, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING METHOD | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1716 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18576984 | COIL DEVICE FOR GENERATING PLASMA AND SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | YU, YUECHUAN | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18390612 | BIAS MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS EQUIPMENT | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBeijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Michael A Band has the most, with 2 of Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
