Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES currently has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is spread across 4 distinct examiners. These examiners are situated within 3 distinct art units, indicating some overlap in the departmental oversight of the company's semiconductor and optics innovations. The use of 3 distinct art units for the pending actions suggests that some are being processed within the same unit, while others are handled separately. This structure requires the company to manage relationships with 4 different officials across 3 specialized departments.
TIKU, SISAY G is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 4 pending actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for a pending action. This distribution prevents any single examiner from becoming a bottleneck for the portfolio. The pending actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics represent the company's current patent office activity. Practitioners should coordinate their responses across the 3 distinct art units to maintain a unified technical narrative.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIKU, SISAY G | 1 | 91.4% | +9.2% |
| HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WEST, PAUL M | 1 | 84.1% | +14.0% |
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 65.5% | +41.7% |
| VU, VU A | 1 | 92.4% | +6.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985748 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING, WITH OPTIMIZED REGULATION, AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERTER COMPRISING A RESONATOR, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM | TIKU, SISAY G | — |
| 18521440 | PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WEST, PAUL M | — |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 46d overdue |
| 18538339 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 46d overdue |
| 18521440 | PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WEST, PAUL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985748 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING, WITH OPTIMIZED REGULATION, AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERTER COMPRISING A RESONATOR, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM | TIKU, SISAY G | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18538339 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | 2899 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18521440 | PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WEST, PAUL M | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18481751 | OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §102§103 | 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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