Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
20 pending office actions • 16 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chinese Academy of Sciences has 20 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 20 examiners and 16 art units, showing a broad prosecution footprint across the technology area. This distribution creates a coordination challenge because claim issues, cited references, and examiner practices may vary substantially from matter to matter.
NGUYEN, DAO H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, so no single examiner accounts for a disproportionate share of the workload. Counsel should maintain a portfolio-level claim chart and disclosure map, while preparing examiner-specific responses. Coordination can reduce inconsistent positions without assuming that arguments effective in one art unit will transfer to another.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 5 (25%) |
| §102 only | 4 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (35%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, DAO H | 1 | 91.4% | +5.7% |
| LIU, BENJAMIN T | 1 | 75.1% | +12.4% |
| TRAN, TONY | 1 | 70.2% | +33.3% |
| DAS, PINAKI | 1 | 87.5% | -1.9% |
| ENAD, CHRISTINE A | 1 | 84.5% | +10.2% |
| VANYO, MICHAEL MOHABIR | 1 | — | — |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1 | 82.0% | +12.9% |
| OWENS, DOUGLAS W | 1 | 80.8% | +3.1% |
| YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY | 1 | 74.1% | +19.4% |
| COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 1 | 45.2% | +15.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18650805 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DECREASED SOURCE AND DRAIN RESISTANCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | — |
| 18565701 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING DOUBLE-GATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | OWENS, DOUGLAS W | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388233 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY | 33d |
| 18834258 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, DAO H | — |
| 18708028 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND TFET DEVICE | DAS, PINAKI | — |
| 18624334 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | VANYO, MICHAEL MOHABIR | — |
| 18681014 | ANALYTIC METHOD AND DEVICE FOR QUANTITATIVELY CALCULATING LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS IN PLASMA ULTRA-DIFFRACTION PHOTOETCHING PROCESS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| 18250461 | METHOD OF DESIGNING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| 18115227 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | — |
| 17759226 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH C-SHAPED CHANNEL PORTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388233 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY | 33d |
| 18754316 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LIU, BENJAMIN T | — |
| 18670024 | SRAM CELL, MEMORY INCLUDING SRAM CELL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRAN, TONY | — |
| 18650805 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DECREASED SOURCE AND DRAIN RESISTANCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | — |
| 18681014 | ANALYTIC METHOD AND DEVICE FOR QUANTITATIVELY CALCULATING LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS IN PLASMA ULTRA-DIFFRACTION PHOTOETCHING PROCESS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| 18250461 | METHOD OF DESIGNING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834258 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, DAO H | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18754316 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LIU, BENJAMIN T | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18670024 | SRAM CELL, MEMORY INCLUDING SRAM CELL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRAN, TONY | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18708028 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND TFET DEVICE | DAS, PINAKI | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18650805 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DECREASED SOURCE AND DRAIN RESISTANCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18624334 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | VANYO, MICHAEL MOHABIR | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18681014 | ANALYTIC METHOD AND DEVICE FOR QUANTITATIVELY CALCULATING LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS IN PLASMA ULTRA-DIFFRACTION PHOTOETCHING PROCESS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1759 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18565701 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING DOUBLE-GATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | OWENS, DOUGLAS W | 2897 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18388233 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY | 2891 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18250461 | METHOD OF DESIGNING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 2188 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18025030 | DEVICE HAVING FERROELECTRIC OR NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | 2818 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18115227 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18043324 | NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE | PATERSON, BRIGITTE A | 2896 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18005756 | SPIN ORBIT TORQUE MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY CELL, SPIN ORBIT TORQUE MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING HAMMING DISTANCE | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17995698 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | KOO, LAMONT B | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17759226 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH C-SHAPED CHANNEL PORTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | 2897 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17731853 | NANOWIRE/NANOSHEET DEVICE WITH SUPPORT PORTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | PURVIS, SUE A | 2800 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
| 18774529 | CALIBRATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF LOOK-AHEAD LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING MEASURING DEVICE | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18643765 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING AGE OF COLUMBITE-TANTALITE BY USING DOUBLE-REFERENCE-MATERIALS | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 17988990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVE BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | HANN, JAY B | 2186 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialChinese Academy of Sciences has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 20 examiners.
Dao H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Chinese Academy of Sciences's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
