Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
CSMC Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's active cases are being handled independently by different specialists at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing a case. This ratio means that no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active workload.
The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions involve different technical sub-fields within the broader semiconductors and optics area. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be developed individually for each case, as there is no overlap in examiners or art units to allow for consolidation. Each of the 2 distinct examiners will apply their own interpretation to the 1 pending action they oversee.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR | 1 | 90.4% | +8.1% |
| MARIN, JACOB RAUL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572595 | FORMING METHOD FOR FLOATING CONTACT HOLE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR | — |
| 18284052 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING SPLIT GATE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MARIN, JACOB RAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572595 | FORMING METHOD FOR FLOATING CONTACT HOLE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR | 2892 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18284052 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING SPLIT GATE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MARIN, JACOB RAUL | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCSMC Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Lalrinfamkim Hmar Malsawma has the most, with 1 of CSMC Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
