Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Chipsemi Semiconductor (Ningbo) Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is under the review of a different official. This requires the company to manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously. The applications are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which indicates a slight technical divergence within the broader semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner for the company is CHAPEL, DEREK S, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending case. With the pending office actions and distinct examiners, no single examiner has a larger share of the workload than the others. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's strategy must account for the specific practices of different administrative groups. Practitioners should coordinate responses across the distinct examiners to maintain consistency in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +21.9% |
| TALLMAN, ROBERT E | 1 | 81.8% | +14.6% |
| DHAKAL, BICKEY | 1 | 84.3% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401454 | FOCUS MOTOR WITH CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL METHOD AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT | TALLMAN, ROBERT E | 56d overdue |
| 18488018 | METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF ACTUATORS WITH CAPACITANCE AS PART OF THE FEEDBACK | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 22d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401454 | FOCUS MOTOR WITH CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL METHOD AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT | TALLMAN, ROBERT E | 56d overdue |
| 18488018 | METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF ACTUATORS WITH CAPACITANCE AS PART OF THE FEEDBACK | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 22d |
| 18807999 | ANTI-SHAKE MOTOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807999 | ANTI-SHAKE MOTOR, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2024 |
| 18401454 | FOCUS MOTOR WITH CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL METHOD AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT | TALLMAN, ROBERT E | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2023 |
| 18488018 | METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF ACTUATORS WITH CAPACITANCE AS PART OF THE FEEDBACK | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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