Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fadu Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that the available actions are distributed across separate prosecution assignments.
POTHEN, FEBA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The equal workload among the listed examiners favors separate matter reviews rather than a portfolio-wide assumption about examination practice.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.0% | +11.3% |
| SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 1 | 28.3% | +50.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022625 | HEALTH CHECK SYSTEM FOR STORAGE CAPACITOR | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18406683 | POWER LOSS PROTECTION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022625 | HEALTH CHECK SYSTEM FOR STORAGE CAPACITOR | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18406683 | POWER LOSS PROTECTION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022625 | HEALTH CHECK SYSTEM FOR STORAGE CAPACITOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18406683 | POWER LOSS PROTECTION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 2859 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFadu Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Feba Pothen has the most, with 1 of Fadu Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
