Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cgg Services SAS maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution provides a variety of perspectives on the company's applications within the patent office, requiring the practitioner to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some level of technical concentration within the patent office's organizational structure despite the variety of examiners involved. Elias Desta is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 4 actions and 4 examiners, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner managing exactly one pending matter. This distribution ensures that each of the company's semiconductor and optics applications is receiving an independent review from a different official, necessitating tailored responses for each application.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESTA, ELIAS | 1 | 84.0% | +10.1% |
| FERRELL, CARTER W | 1 | 61.9% | +47.6% |
| NGO, STEVEN | 1 | 69.2% | +29.0% |
| HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATION EVALUATION | DESTA, ELIAS | — |
| 18630066 | JOINT PRECONDITIONING FOR TIME-LAPSE FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM | FERRELL, CARTER W | — |
| 18540434 | APPARATUS FOR FLUID IMMERSION COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | — |
| 18456862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE PREDICTION WITH ANGULAR DEPENDENT REFLECTIVITY | HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATION EVALUATION | DESTA, ELIAS | — |
| 18630066 | JOINT PRECONDITIONING FOR TIME-LAPSE FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM | FERRELL, CARTER W | — |
| 18540434 | APPARATUS FOR FLUID IMMERSION COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 3 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATION EVALUATION | DESTA, ELIAS | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18630066 | JOINT PRECONDITIONING FOR TIME-LAPSE FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM | FERRELL, CARTER W | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18540434 | APPARATUS FOR FLUID IMMERSION COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18456862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE PREDICTION WITH ANGULAR DEPENDENT REFLECTIVITY | HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | 2857 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCgg Services SAS has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Elias Desta has the most, with 1 of Cgg Services SAS's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
