Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
D2S Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions within its patent portfolio, primarily focused on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. The workload spans 2 distinct art units, indicating technical diversity in the pending applications.
ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner manages a portion of the total 6 pending office actions. The presence of distinct art units within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field shows that the work is not confined to a specialized group.
Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner behaviors across the 4 distinct individuals involved. The actions assigned to ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED represent the busiest examiner pending workload for this portfolio. This concentration may be a focal point for the company's prosecution strategy.
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 | 5 (83%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED | 2 | 75.0% | +16.7% |
| BOWERS, BRANDON | 2 | 86.3% | +6.4% |
| ALAM, MOHAMMED | 1 | 92.1% | +6.2% |
| BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 1 | 76.6% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515140 | MODELING OF A DESIGN IN RETICLE ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY | ALAM, MOHAMMED | — |
| 18097272 | USING MACHINE-TRAINED NETWORK TO PERFORM DRC CHECK | BOWERS, BRANDON | — |
| 17992870 | BASED ON MULTIPLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS VARIATIONS, PRODUCING MULTIPLE CONTOURS REPRESENTING PREDICTED SHAPES OF AN IC DESIGN COMPONENT | BOWERS, BRANDON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18110332 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH NON-PREFERRED DIRECTION CURVILINEAR WIRING | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 45d overdue |
| 18922352 | CORRECTING RULE VIOLATIONS IN A LAYOUT | ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED | — |
| 18814436 | ITERATIVE MASK OPTIMIZATION BIASED TOWARDS CRITICAL REGIONS OF LAYOUT | ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2851 | 4 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922352 | CORRECTING RULE VIOLATIONS IN A LAYOUT | ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED | 2851 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18814436 | ITERATIVE MASK OPTIMIZATION BIASED TOWARDS CRITICAL REGIONS OF LAYOUT | ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED | 2851 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18515140 | MODELING OF A DESIGN IN RETICLE ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY | ALAM, MOHAMMED | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18110332 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH NON-PREFERRED DIRECTION CURVILINEAR WIRING | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 18097272 | USING MACHINE-TRAINED NETWORK TO PERFORM DRC CHECK | BOWERS, BRANDON | 2851 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2023 |
| 17992870 | BASED ON MULTIPLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS VARIATIONS, PRODUCING MULTIPLE CONTOURS REPRESENTING PREDICTED SHAPES OF AN IC DESIGN COMPONENT | BOWERS, BRANDON | 2851 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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