Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 6 pending office actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different person. The workload is also spread across 4 distinct art units.
FINCH III, FRED E is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are distinct examiners for the active cases, there is no opportunity to consolidate arguments before a single examiner. The presence of 4 distinct art units further suggests that the pending office actions cover several different technical niches within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Practitioners must be prepared for different examination styles across the various art units involved in these proceedings. The lack of examiner overlap requires a highly individualized strategy for every pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| LEE, JYE-JUNE | 1 | 84.9% | +3.5% |
| BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | 1 | 79.6% | +7.4% |
| FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 1 | 57.9% | +14.5% |
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.2% |
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 18.1% | +26.2% |
| HOSSAIN, KAZI S | 1 | 80.0% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975413 | POWER SUPPLY AND CONTROLLER | LEE, JYE-JUNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372157 | ESTIMATING SYSTEM AND ESTIMATING METHOD FOR ENERGY-SAVING AND EMISSION-REDUCTION OF ENERGY-CONSUMPTION DEVICE | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 8d |
| 18386578 | TESTING SYSTEM AND TESTING METHOD FOR SENSOR DATA OF MONITORING SYSTEM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 36d |
| 19051453 | POWER CONVERTER | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18663107 | POWER SUPPLY | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | — |
| 18465408 | PLANAR TRANSFORMER | HOSSAIN, KAZI S | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372157 | ESTIMATING SYSTEM AND ESTIMATING METHOD FOR ENERGY-SAVING AND EMISSION-REDUCTION OF ENERGY-CONSUMPTION DEVICE | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 8d |
| 18386578 | TESTING SYSTEM AND TESTING METHOD FOR SENSOR DATA OF MONITORING SYSTEM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 36d |
| 19051453 | POWER CONVERTER | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18392155 | ROTATABLE TERMINAL MODULE | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | — |
| 18465408 | PLANAR TRANSFORMER | HOSSAIN, KAZI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051453 | POWER CONVERTER | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18975413 | POWER SUPPLY AND CONTROLLER | LEE, JYE-JUNE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18663107 | POWER SUPPLY | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18392155 | ROTATABLE TERMINAL MODULE | FIGUEROA, FELIX O | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18386578 | TESTING SYSTEM AND TESTING METHOD FOR SENSOR DATA OF MONITORING SYSTEM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18372157 | ESTIMATING SYSTEM AND ESTIMATING METHOD FOR ENERGY-SAVING AND EMISSION-REDUCTION OF ENERGY-CONSUMPTION DEVICE | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18465408 | PLANAR TRANSFORMER | HOSSAIN, KAZI S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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