Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Empower Semiconductor Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These active matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's semiconductor innovations fall into several specialized USPTO categories. The presence of 3 distinct art units implies that the company must manage its intellectual property across different technical groups, each with its own examination standards.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, with each official handling exactly one of the active matters. BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending action for the company. This distribution means that every active matter is being reviewed by a different individual, leading to a variety of examiner interactions and perspectives across the portfolio.
This lack of concentration among examiners and art units suggests that the company must maintain a flexible approach to prosecution. Practitioners should prepare for diverse feedback, as no specific official's interpretation dominates the current workload. The decentralized nature of these actions requires a versatile legal strategy to navigate the specific procedural nuances and examination styles found in the various divisions of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | 1 | 79.6% | +7.3% |
| MOODY, KYLE J | 1 | 90.6% | +7.7% |
| TRAN, TONY | 1 | 70.2% | +33.3% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.5% | +24.8% |
| RAHMAN, MOIN M | 1 | 87.1% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019140 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR CYCLE-BY-CYCLE AVERAGE INDUCTOR CURRENT SENSING IN DC-DC CONVERTERS | MOODY, KYLE J | — |
| 17960003 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | RAHMAN, MOIN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924884 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | TRAN, TONY | 14d |
| 19079228 | SERIES STACKED PHASE DC-DC CONVERTERS WITH STABLE OPERATION | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | — |
| 18830039 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ADAPTIVE DEAD TIME | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924884 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | TRAN, TONY | 14d |
| 18830039 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ADAPTIVE DEAD TIME | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 17960003 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | RAHMAN, MOIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079228 | SERIES STACKED PHASE DC-DC CONVERTERS WITH STABLE OPERATION | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19019140 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR CYCLE-BY-CYCLE AVERAGE INDUCTOR CURRENT SENSING IN DC-DC CONVERTERS | MOODY, KYLE J | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18924884 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | TRAN, TONY | 2893 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18830039 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ADAPTIVE DEAD TIME | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 17960003 | CONFIGURABLE CAPACITOR | RAHMAN, MOIN M | 2898 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEmpower Semiconductor Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Harry Raymond Behm has the most, with 1 of Empower Semiconductor Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
