Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Enkris Semiconductor Inc.

23 pending office actions • 11 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

12
Hard (52%)
9
Medium (39%)
2
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (39%)
§112 only2 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (52%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
4% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
19
Semiconductors
83% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
13% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, JAY C 3 49.0% +21.6%
NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 2 68.3% +41.4%
ALBRECHT, PETER M 1 70.9% +3.4%
YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S 1 85.7% -8.7%
MOONEY, MICHAEL P 1 88.3% +8.5%
STUESSY, NOLAN GABRIEL 1
PRICE, LYTESHIA M 1
KHALIFA, MOATAZ 1 91.9% +0.1%
HENRY, CALEB E 1 86.8% +6.1%
WARD, ERIC A 1 77.9% +13.4%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18735551 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S
18595013 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, AND MANFUFACTURING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE KHALIFA, MOATAZ
18426874 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF A LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE HENRY, CALEB E

Hard Cases (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18459874 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF CHEN, YU 16d overdue
18741411 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ALBRECHT, PETER M
18630945 OPTICAL COUPLING STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MOONEY, MICHAEL P
18522901 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WARD, ERIC A
18512837 FULL-COLOR LED STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD OF FULL-COLOR LED STRUCTURE PURVIS, SUE A
18385220 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN
18361490 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE NIELSEN, DEREK LANG
18356211 SEMICONDUTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF SIMONE, CATHERINE A

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18522901 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WARD, ERIC A
18473878 VERTICALLY CONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR NIELSEN, DEREK LANG
18361490 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE NIELSEN, DEREK LANG
18352187 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE KIM, JAY C
18323343 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF KIM, JAY C
18319437 MANUFACTURING METHODS OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES KIM, JAY C

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2899 4
2815 3
2818 2
2817 2
2893 2
2898 2
2874 1
2891 1
2896 1
1781 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18741411 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ALBRECHT, PETER M §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2024
18735551 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2024
18630945 OPTICAL COUPLING STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MOONEY, MICHAEL P 2874 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2024
18623391 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF STUESSY, NOLAN GABRIEL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2024
18619664 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE PRICE, LYTESHIA M 2818 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18595013 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, AND MANFUFACTURING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE KHALIFA, MOATAZ 2817 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2024
18426874 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF A LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE HENRY, CALEB E 2818 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18522901 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WARD, ERIC A 2891 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18512837 FULL-COLOR LED STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD OF FULL-COLOR LED STRUCTURE PURVIS, SUE A 2893 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 17, 2023
18385220 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN 2899 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 30, 2023
18495110 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18473878 VERTICALLY CONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 2899 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2023
18459874 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF CHEN, YU 2896 §102§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18361490 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 2899 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2023
18356211 SEMICONDUTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 20, 2023
18352187 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE KIM, JAY C 2815 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 13, 2023
18335955 LASER DIODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME MANNO, JESSICA S 2898 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
18323343 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF KIM, JAY C 2815 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 24, 2023
18319437 MANUFACTURING METHODS OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES KIM, JAY C 2815 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2023
18252347 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE SMITH, BRADLEY 2817 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2023
18251365 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR NETTLES, CORALIE ANN 2893 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending May 01, 2023
17967933 RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES, SILICON CARBIDE HOMOEPITAXIAL SUBSTRATES AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2022
17788967 RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES WITH ISOLATION STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2022

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