Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Efficient Power Conversion Corporation operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's prosecution profile shows 2 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. Both examiners are situated within a distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical concentration for the company's current patent applications.
CHIN, EDWARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided, with each examiner responsible for one action. The fact that a single distinct art unit covers both pending actions suggests that the subject matter is highly specialized within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Practitioners managing these 2 pending office actions will deal with 2 distinct examiners but can expect a consistent art unit environment. CHIN, EDWARD, as one of the 2 distinct examiners, oversees 1 of the 2 pending actions currently reported for the company.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, EDWARD | 1 | 87.2% | +6.8% |
| STEPHENSON, KENNETH STEPHEN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735775 | GaN TRANSISTOR HAVING MULTI-THICKNESS FRONT BARRIER | CHIN, EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735775 | GaN TRANSISTOR HAVING MULTI-THICKNESS FRONT BARRIER | CHIN, EDWARD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18489098 | THREE-TERMINAL BIDIRECTIONAL ENHANCEMENT MODE GaN SWITCH | STEPHENSON, KENNETH STEPHEN | 2898 | §102 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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