Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. manages a portfolio with 7 pending office actions, all located within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 5 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the company is engaging with multiple departments at the patent office.
NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This examiner handles a larger portion of the company's active matters than any other individual examiner. The concentration of these 3 pending actions suggests that her decisions will influence the overall portfolio outcomes.
With 4 distinct art units in play, the company coordinates strategies across multiple examination groups. The presence of 7 pending office actions reflects ongoing engagement with the patent office. Practitioners can monitor the 5 distinct examiners to identify trends in rejections or allowances across the 4 art units.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 3 | 45.5% | +40.1% |
| HEADLY, MELISSA A | 1 | 75.1% | +41.0% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 64.1% | +19.5% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.5% |
| WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1 | 54.4% | +17.8% |
| LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1 | 60.6% | +29.3% |
| YU, YUECHUAN | 1 | 66.4% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | — |
| 18576984 | COIL DEVICE FOR GENERATING PLASMA AND SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | YU, YUECHUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3d overdue |
| 18846849 | VACUUMING STSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND VACUUMING METHOD THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 27d |
| 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 | — |
| 18626331 | REACTION CHAMBER COMPONENT, PREPARATION METHOD, AND REACTION CHAMBER | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | — |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | — |
| 18576984 | COIL DEVICE FOR GENERATING PLASMA AND SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | YU, YUECHUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 3 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846849 | VACUUMING STSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND VACUUMING METHOD THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18725498 | TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE | HEADLY, MELISSA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18722085 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING DEVICE AND EXHAUST SYSTEM THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | — | §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 |
| 18626331 | REACTION CHAMBER COMPONENT, PREPARATION METHOD, AND REACTION CHAMBER | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 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 |
| 18254062 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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