Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Chinese Academy of Sciences

15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (80%)
2
Easy (13%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (67%)
§102 only2 (13%)
§112 only2 (13%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
13
Semiconductors
87% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
13% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ERDEM, FAZLI 1 85.4% +15.9%
DAS, PINAKI 1 90.9% +5.2%
LIU, MIKKA H 1 92.2% +3.7%
CLINTON, EVAN GARRETT 1 88.4% +5.3%
OWENS, DOUGLAS W 1 81.0% +3.0%
HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 1 85.1% +9.2%
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 1 88.1% +19.9%
FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 1 77.3% +8.3%
CHUNG, ANDREW 1 54.8% +32.0%
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 1 77.3% -3.6%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 15d overdue
18725965 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND NANOSHEET STRUCTURE ERDEM, FAZLI
18708028 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND TFET DEVICE DAS, PINAKI
18533891 GATE-ALL-AROUND TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME CLINTON, EVAN GARRETT
18565701 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING DOUBLE-GATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS OWENS, DOUGLAS W
18264903 ACTIVATION FUNCTION GENERATOR BASED ON MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL DRIVEN MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD WINTERS, SEAN AYERS

Interview Candidates (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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18725965 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND NANOSHEET STRUCTURE ERDEM, FAZLI
18264903 ACTIVATION FUNCTION GENERATOR BASED ON MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL DRIVEN MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD WINTERS, SEAN AYERS
18250128 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHUNG, ANDREW

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2817 3
2897 2
2899 1
2892 1
2898 1
2818 1
2896 1
2815 1
2813 1
2800 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18725965 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND NANOSHEET STRUCTURE ERDEM, FAZLI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 01, 2024
18708028 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GATE-ALL-AROUND TFET DEVICE DAS, PINAKI §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2024
18397579 SRAM CELL, MEMORY INCLUDING SRAM CELL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING SRAM CELL LIU, MIKKA H 2817 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18533891 GATE-ALL-AROUND TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME CLINTON, EVAN GARRETT 2899 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
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
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18264903 ACTIVATION FUNCTION GENERATOR BASED ON MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL DRIVEN MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 09, 2023
18260320 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 2817 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 04, 2023
18250128 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHUNG, ANDREW 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 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
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
18009410 VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CONDUCTIVE LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LEE, WOO KYUNG 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
17995698 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME KOO, LAMONT B 2813 §103 Final Rejection 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 §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 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 28, 2022

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