Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Superstring Academy of Memory Technology has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 actions are being handled by 5 distinct examiners, which means each pending matter is under the review of a different individual. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively broad technical focus within the semiconductor field. ROJAS, MIDYS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner managing 1 pending action. The presence of 4 distinct art units for the 5 pending actions indicates that most applications are being reviewed in different technical groups. This lack of concentration means that practitioners must prepare for a variety of examiner styles and art unit specificities. The 1 pending action assigned to ROJAS, MIDYS represents a portion of the current active portfolio across the 4 units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROJAS, MIDYS | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| NIX, NORA TAYLOR | 1 | 89.8% | +9.4% |
| BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 1 | — | — |
| PHAM, LONG | 1 | 91.6% | +5.5% |
| NGUYEN, DUY T V | 1 | 78.9% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714965 | VERTICAL TRANSISTOR, STORAGE UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | NIX, NORA TAYLOR | — |
| 18692472 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | PHAM, LONG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19147810 | CXL MEMORY MODULE, MEMORY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | ROJAS, MIDYS | — |
| 18692912 | 3D STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162997 | METHOD FOR FORMING CAPACITOR OF DRAM AND DRAM | NGUYEN, DUY T V | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2133 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19147810 | CXL MEMORY MODULE, MEMORY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | ROJAS, MIDYS | 2133 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 18714965 | VERTICAL TRANSISTOR, STORAGE UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | NIX, NORA TAYLOR | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18692912 | 3D STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 2899 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18692472 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | PHAM, LONG | 2897 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18162997 | METHOD FOR FORMING CAPACITOR OF DRAM AND DRAM | NGUYEN, DUY T V | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
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