Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Enkris Semiconductor (Wuxi) Ltd. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These active matters are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the company's semiconductor innovations are being reviewed by a broad range of technical specialists at the patent office, rather than being concentrated under a single individual. The presence of 5 pending office actions reflects a significant and active engagement with the patent office in the semiconductor sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GERALD HENRY BISSELL, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed with each examiner managing exactly one case. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio spans multiple specialized technical classifications within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the different perspectives of 5 distinct examiners across these various units. Managing 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units necessitates a highly coordinated strategy to ensure consistency in technical arguments.
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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JAY C | 2 | 49.3% | +21.6% |
| BISSELL, GERALD HENRY | 1 | — | — |
| ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 1 | 83.4% | +4.2% |
| WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| RODRIGUEZ VILLANU, SANDRA MILENA | 1 | 87.9% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350612 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Manufacturing the Same | RODRIGUEZ VILLANU, SANDRA MILENA | 61d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783441 | SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE | BISSELL, GERALD HENRY | — |
| 18432935 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | — |
| 18488252 | STRUCTURE OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER | — |
| 18361458 | COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | — |
| 18347504 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350612 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Manufacturing the Same | RODRIGUEZ VILLANU, SANDRA MILENA | 61d |
| 18361458 | COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | — |
| 18347504 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2815 | 2 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783441 | SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE | BISSELL, GERALD HENRY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18432935 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 2813 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18488252 | STRUCTURE OF LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER | 2818 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18361458 | COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18350612 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Manufacturing the Same | RODRIGUEZ VILLANU, SANDRA MILENA | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18347504 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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