Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cheng Mei Instrument Technology Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating examiner dispersion with some technical-unit overlap.
CHIN, RICKY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not show a repeated examiner assignment. Counsel should coordinate portfolio positions across the 2 art units while preparing application-specific responses for each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, RICKY | 1 | 68.7% | +21.6% |
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.7% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608363 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF INSPECTING SURFACE OF INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 4d overdue |
| 19020512 | METHOD FOR WAFER INSECTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | CHIN, RICKY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020512 | METHOD FOR WAFER INSECTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18608363 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF INSPECTING SURFACE OF INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCheng Mei Instrument Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ricky Chin has the most, with 1 of Cheng Mei Instrument Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
