Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The presence of 4 actions, 4 examiners, and 4 art units suggests that each pending matter is being reviewed independently by different specialized personnel. This distribution means the company must manage four separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and departmental standards, rather than benefiting from a centralized examination process within a single art unit.
TIKU, SISAY G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action is one of the 4 total pending office actions for the company. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending actions, the workload is evenly spread, and no single examiner is currently managing more than 1 active case for the organization. For the applicant, this indicates that the outcome of each of the 4 pending matters is subject to the independent review of a different examiner, reducing the risk that a single negative finding will affect the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 1 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 68.8% | +40.0% |
| VU, VU A | 1 | 92.3% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597346 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN OHMIC CONTACT ON A GERMANIUM-TIN BASED LAYER | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
| 18457549 | CONDUCTIVE AND TRANSPARENT INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SYSTEM | VU, VU A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18597346 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN OHMIC CONTACT ON A GERMANIUM-TIN BASED LAYER | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18457549 | CONDUCTIVE AND TRANSPARENT INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SYSTEM | VU, VU A | 2897 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCOMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Patricia D Valenzuela has the most, with 1 of COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
