Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Db Hitek Co. Ltd. has 15 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket spans 15 examiners and 10 art units, so every matter has a distinct examiner assignment while multiple matters fall within the same technical groups. This structure calls for robust docket controls, coordinated claim terminology, and art-unit-aware review of recurring semiconductor issues.
IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration is shown, making cross-matter consistency and individual response timing more important than managing a dominant examiner relationship.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL | 1 | 90.8% | +6.9% |
| DULKA, JOHN P | 1 | 83.8% | +12.3% |
| LEE, KYOUNG | 1 | 93.2% | +5.1% |
| MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 1 | 85.7% | +33.3% |
| NGUYEN, CUONG B | 1 | 88.3% | +15.3% |
| YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI | 1 | 81.2% | -2.5% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +5.7% |
| MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 1 | 85.3% | +14.4% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427186 | RESONATOR AND RESONATOR DRIVE METHOD | GANNON, LEVI | 8d |
| 18769619 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING OXIDE FILM AND STRUCTURE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | DULKA, JOHN P | — |
| 18756945 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ISOLATION STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | LEE, KYOUNG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493120 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATED IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 82d |
| 18191296 | LDMOS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MAI, ANH D | 84d |
| 18812209 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL | — |
| 18739894 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | — |
| 18662597 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | NGUYEN, CUONG B | — |
| 18441435 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI | — |
| 18422768 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | — |
| 18421186 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769619 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING OXIDE FILM AND STRUCTURE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | DULKA, JOHN P | — |
| 18739894 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | — |
| 18662597 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | NGUYEN, CUONG B | — |
| 18421186 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 3 |
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18812209 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL | 2812 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18769619 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING OXIDE FILM AND STRUCTURE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | DULKA, JOHN P | 2817 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18756945 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ISOLATION STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | LEE, KYOUNG | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18739894 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18662597 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | NGUYEN, CUONG B | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18441435 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI | 2899 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18427186 | RESONATOR AND RESONATOR DRIVE METHOD | GANNON, LEVI | 2849 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18422768 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18421186 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 2814 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18415775 | METHOD OF FABRICATING OXIDE FILM WITH UNIFORM THICKNESS | MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 2898 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18408902 | STACKED VIA STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING STACKED VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18493120 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATED IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18326077 | INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18191296 | LDMOS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MAI, ANH D | 2893 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18118541 | IMAGE SENSOR | HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDb Hitek Co. Ltd. has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 15 examiners.
S M Sohel Imtiaz has the most, with 1 of Db Hitek Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
