Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dongguan Padmat Rubber Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HENZE, DAVID V, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the entire pending portfolio is currently subject to the review of a single individual, making their examination style critical to the company's immediate patent goals. For the practitioner, this means there are no other active matters to provide a broader perspective on the art unit's current standards.
The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity, as the single pending matter is being handled by one examiner within one administrative group. This lack of distribution across different art units or examiners suggests a highly specialized invention that falls squarely within a single regulatory niche, requiring a focused and consistent legal approach during prosecution to overcome any rejections issued by the assigned examiner in this case.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENZE, DAVID V | 1 | 69.7% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635061 | WIRELESSLY CHARGEABLE MOUSE PAD AND COIL MODULE THEREOF | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635061 | WIRELESSLY CHARGEABLE MOUSE PAD AND COIL MODULE THEREOF | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDongguan Padmat Rubber Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David V Henze has the most, with 1 of Dongguan Padmat Rubber Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
