Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Db Hitek Co. Ltd. maintains a portfolio with 13 pending office actions, all situated within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is distributed across 13 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending action is being handled by a different individual. Furthermore, these actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of technical sub-specialties within the broader semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner for this company is FOX, BRANDON C, who currently has 1 pending office action. The fact that the busiest examiner only manages a single action, despite there being 13 pending office actions in total, highlights the extreme fragmentation of the portfolio's prosecution. Practitioners must prepare to engage with many different examiners, each potentially having unique interpretations of the 8 distinct art units involved. This lack of examiner overlap means that successful strategies in one application may not easily translate to others.
Managing the pending office actions across multiple art units requires a broad defensive and offensive strategy. Since FOX, BRANDON C and the other examiners each hold only a single action, the company faces a wide array of individual perspectives within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. This distribution minimizes the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire portfolio but increases the complexity of maintaining consistency across all filings.
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 (23%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOX, BRANDON C | 1 | 85.6% | +10.1% |
| MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 1 | 85.7% | +33.3% |
| NGUYEN, CUONG B | 1 | 88.3% | +15.4% |
| YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI | 1 | 81.3% | -2.7% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +6.0% |
| MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 1 | 87.5% | +11.0% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 1 | — | — |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 1 | 72.8% | +20.5% |
| MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 1 | 89.4% | +10.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427186 | RESONATOR AND RESONATOR DRIVE METHOD | GANNON, LEVI | 8d |
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 |
| 18785386 | MIM CAPACITOR STRUCTURE OF IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FOX, BRANDON C | — |
| 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493120 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATED IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 82d |
| 18785386 | MIM CAPACITOR STRUCTURE OF IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FOX, BRANDON C | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18408902 | STACKED VIA STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING STACKED VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18785386 | MIM CAPACITOR STRUCTURE OF IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FOX, BRANDON C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18739894 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18662597 | HIGH VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | NGUYEN, CUONG B | — | §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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