Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit Design Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions for this portfolio. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's active matters are split between different technical reviewers and groups.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is THROCKMORTON, ROBERT EMIL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the practitioner must manage two separate prosecution paths. The workload is evenly distributed, as the busiest examiner is only handling 1 of the pending matters. This requires a strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of each distinct examiner and the standards of each distinct art unit. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending applications may cover different technical aspects within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THROCKMORTON, ROBERT EMIL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FAAL, BABOUCARR | 1 | 80.6% | +14.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689015 | CACHE STATUS RECORDING METHOD, DATA ACCESS METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSES AND DEVICES | FAAL, BABOUCARR | — |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696611 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGING, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PACKAGING AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | THROCKMORTON, ROBERT EMIL | — |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689015 | CACHE STATUS RECORDING METHOD, DATA ACCESS METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSES AND DEVICES | FAAL, BABOUCARR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18696611 | ELECTRONIC PACKAGING, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PACKAGING AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | THROCKMORTON, ROBERT EMIL | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18689015 | CACHE STATUS RECORDING METHOD, DATA ACCESS METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSES AND DEVICES | FAAL, BABOUCARR | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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