Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Blue Cheetah Analog Design Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is being handled by examiner HILTUNEN, THOMAS J. Because there is the pending office action, the entire current prosecution focus for the company is centralized with this examiner.
HILTUNEN, THOMAS J is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this represents a focused engagement. The outcome of this action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics space defines the company's current USPTO activity. With the distinct art unit involved, there are no competing procedural requirements or diverse examiner styles to manage at this time. This focus allows for a strategy tailored to the specific art unit. Practitioners should analyze the tendencies of the examiner to anticipate potential rejections. Since there is the distinct examiner, the stakes for this matter are high, as it currently defines the company's entire active engagement with the patent office. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field is highly technical, and having the pending office action concentrated in the distinct art unit allows for a very specific legal approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 1 | 81.5% | +6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19305061 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINK WITH CAPACITOR-BASED PUMPED OUTPUT | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19305061 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINK WITH CAPACITOR-BASED PUMPED OUTPUT | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 2836 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBlue Cheetah Analog Design Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas J Hiltunen has the most, with 1 of Blue Cheetah Analog Design Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
