Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 88 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cadence Design Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Aric Lin is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. The company's prosecution is currently focused on a single point. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings are being reviewed by one individual.
Lin is the sole examiner with a pending action for this entity. Practitioners can concentrate on the 1 pending office action. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio. The prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interaction with Aric Lin. This centralized structure ensures that the company's current intellectual property efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector are not split across different examination groups, allowing for a unified and focused prosecution 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, ARIC | 1 | 59.4% | +12.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2851 | 1 |
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Start Free TrialCadence Design Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aric Lin has the most, with 1 of Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
