Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
CSMC Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This wide distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution is highly decentralized across the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR. This examiner is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific action is one of the 4 total pending office actions for the company. MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR is one of the multiple individuals reviewing the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics applications.
The 4 pending office actions are assigned to the distinct examiners and the distinct art units. MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR is the busiest examiner with the busiest examiner pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution is spread, with each of the 4 pending office actions being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. Practitioners should be prepared for unique examiner perspectives and art unit requirements for each pending matter.
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 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALSAWMA, LALRINFAMKIM HMAR | 1 | 90.5% | +8.8% |
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 1 | 72.2% | +18.4% |
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567101 | GGNMOS TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, ESD PROTECTION DEVICE AND CIRCUIT | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567101 | GGNMOS TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, ESD PROTECTION DEVICE AND CIRCUIT | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2893 | 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 |
| 18567101 | GGNMOS TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, ESD PROTECTION DEVICE AND CIRCUIT | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 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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