Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Epistar Corporation is currently managing 13 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 13 actions is assigned to a different individual, as evidenced by the 13 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. This perfect distribution of one action per examiner suggests a wide-ranging prosecution landscape where no single examiner's perspective dominates the company's current applications. The work is concentrated within 4 distinct art units, showing a focused technical scope despite the variety of examiners.
The busiest examiner, CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the overall distribution across the 13 distinct examiners. This level of dispersion means that the company must manage 13 unique examination styles simultaneously. While the 4 distinct art units provide some level of technical consistency, the high number of examiners requires a versatile response strategy. Practitioners should note that the 13 pending office actions represent a significant volume of active work that is spread broadly across the patent office's semiconductor-focused personnel.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | 1 | 86.6% | +5.1% |
| SEVEN, EVREN | 1 | 74.5% | +8.6% |
| CRITE, ANTONIO B | 1 | 81.6% | -13.4% |
| STEVENSON, ANDRE C | 1 | 89.5% | +7.2% |
| BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | 1 | 90.7% | +4.9% |
| MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 1 | 57.1% | +80.0% |
| PARK, SAMUEL | 1 | 84.5% | +24.1% |
| SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 52.7% | +33.9% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.8% | -11.8% |
| IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 1 | 83.3% | +20.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733304 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | — |
| 18615912 | PIXEL PACKAGE | STEVENSON, ANDRE C | — |
| 18506698 | LIGHT-EMITTING PACKAGE AND LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT | PARK, SAMUEL | — |
| 18138665 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18208353 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KIM, SU C | 19d |
| 18679369 | MONOLITHIC ARRAY CHIP | SEVEN, EVREN | — |
| 18641195 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | CRITE, ANTONIO B | — |
| 18608092 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — |
| 18529961 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | — |
| 18242758 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529961 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | — |
| 18506698 | LIGHT-EMITTING PACKAGE AND LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT | PARK, SAMUEL | — |
| 18242758 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
| 18138665 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733304 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18679369 | MONOLITHIC ARRAY CHIP | SEVEN, EVREN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18641195 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | CRITE, ANTONIO B | 2817 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18615912 | PIXEL PACKAGE | STEVENSON, ANDRE C | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18608092 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18529961 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18506698 | LIGHT-EMITTING PACKAGE AND LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT | PARK, SAMUEL | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18242758 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 2898 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18208353 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18138665 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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