Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bourns Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This means each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different technical group. This one-to-one relationship between actions, examiners, and units suggests a highly individualized prosecution path for each application.
The busiest examiner, SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, each application is being reviewed by a unique examiner in a unique technical group. This lack of overlap means that the outcomes of the 2 pending office actions are likely to be independent of one another.
Practitioners managing this portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area must tailor their strategies to the specific requirements of 2 distinct art units. With 2 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage a single relationship to advance multiple cases. The 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current active matters, requiring a focused effort on two separate fronts within the USPTO. This structure emphasizes the need for distinct technical arguments for each filing.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 1 | 80.5% | +26.1% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602730 | RESONANT CONVERTER FOR A CORONA GENERATOR | FINCH III, FRED E | 9d |
| 18929037 | INTEGRATED THERMAL SWITCHING AND SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602730 | RESONANT CONVERTER FOR A CORONA GENERATOR | FINCH III, FRED E | 9d |
| 18929037 | INTEGRATED THERMAL SWITCHING AND SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929037 | INTEGRATED THERMAL SWITCHING AND SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18602730 | RESONANT CONVERTER FOR A CORONA GENERATOR | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBourns Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Stephen Sangjin Sul has the most, with 1 of Bourns Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
