Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bourns Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company must address three different examiner perspectives and communication styles simultaneously, as there is no overlap in the personnel currently assigned to these matters.
The company's active cases are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing that the 3 pending office actions involve different technical specialties within the broader semiconductors field. The busiest examiner, SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 3 and there are 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 action. This spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a decentralized prosecution profile where the 3 pending office actions are subject to the standards of different technical groups and individual examiner preferences within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | 80.4% | +26.1% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| LEE, KYUNG S | 1 | 87.2% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346823 | MULTI-LAYER ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LEE, KYUNG S | — |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929037 | INTEGRATED THERMAL SWITCHING AND SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | — | §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 |
| 18346823 | MULTI-LAYER ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LEE, KYUNG S | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 04, 2023 |
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