Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cambridge Mechatronics Limited has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed among 6 examiners and 4 art units, making the portfolio’s examination activity broad in both examiner and art-unit coverage.
NGUYEN, THONG Q is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner holds more than that stated workload, so the portfolio requires distributed docket management rather than reliance on a dominant reviewer.
The 4-art-unit footprint suggests that claim strategy, prior-art analysis, and response timing should be tracked by examination setting. Counsel can maintain consistent technical themes, but each matter should be evaluated against its assigned examiner’s position and art-unit practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 33.5% | +26.9% |
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| ADAMS, CARL | 1 | 71.9% | +16.3% |
| ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 1 | 75.7% | +20.5% |
| CHANG, FANG-CHI | 1 | 70.5% | -29.8% |
| PHAN, MINH Q | 1 | 75.7% | -4.5% |
| HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 1 | 69.0% | +8.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919027 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | PHAN, MINH Q | 12d |
| 19551581 | CONTROL OF SMA HAPTIC ASSEMBLY | ENGLISH, PETER C | — |
| 18580253 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | — |
| 18282382 | AN ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | CHANG, FANG-CHI | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286188 | SMA ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 39d |
| 19551581 | CONTROL OF SMA HAPTIC ASSEMBLY | ENGLISH, PETER C | — |
| 18580253 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2852 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 2627 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19551581 | CONTROL OF SMA HAPTIC ASSEMBLY | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2026 |
| 18580253 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18286375 | HAPTIC GLOVE | ADAMS, CARL | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18286188 | SMA ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18282382 | AN ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | CHANG, FANG-CHI | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17919027 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | PHAN, MINH Q | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17919034 | CAMERA ASSEMBLY | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCambridge Mechatronics Limited has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Peter C English has the most, with 1 of Cambridge Mechatronics Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
