Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
CHIPBOND TECHNOLOGY Corporation has 5 pending office actions concentrated within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 5 actions are located in 1 distinct art unit, showing a highly centralized prosecution environment. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company's current filings are focused on a very specific set of technical challenges within the semiconductor field.
There are 5 distinct examiners assigned to these matters, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing exactly 1 action. DAS, PINAKI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This distribution indicates that while the technical focus is narrow, the workload is spread evenly across the assigned personnel. No single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current pending matters, which may lead to a diversity of perspectives even within a single art unit.
The presence of 5 different examiners for 5 pending actions in 1 art unit is notable. It suggests that the patent office is distributing the company's work broadly among the available staff in that unit. For the company, this means that successful prosecution in one case may not necessarily predict the outcome of another, as each of the 5 actions is being evaluated by a different individual.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAS, PINAKI | 1 | 86.8% | -1.8% |
| PATEL, AMOL H | 1 | 85.4% | +9.5% |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 1 | 85.8% | -36.2% |
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 1 | 71.0% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964797 | TEST PAD | PATEL, AMOL H | — |
| 18753556 | CHIP | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19273592 | FLIP CHIP BONDING METHOD AND CHIP USED THEREIN | DAS, PINAKI | — |
| 18790024 | DISPLAY PANEL PACKAGE | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611848 | CHIP STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19273592 | FLIP CHIP BONDING METHOD AND CHIP USED THEREIN | DAS, PINAKI | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 18964797 | TEST PAD | PATEL, AMOL H | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18790024 | DISPLAY PANEL PACKAGE | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18753556 | CHIP | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18611848 | CHIP STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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