Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flex Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing distributed examiner coverage with some repeated assignments.
LU, QIANG is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters should be reviewed together for consistency, while the remaining actions require analysis tailored to their separate examiner and art-unit records.
The four-art-unit structure offers a practical basis for identifying recurring treatment of semiconductor, circuit, or optics issues. Centralized docket control should complement, rather than replace, action-specific prosecution planning.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | 1 | 81.1% | +23.0% |
| LU, QIANG | 1 | — | — |
| ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 1 | 86.7% | +18.2% |
| TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | 1 | 67.9% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968875 | Effective Enclosure Surface Features Design to Optimize Touchable Temperature for Power Adapter Devices | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175289 | DIGITAL DESIGN FOR AUTOMATION LINE (DDFAUT-LINE) AUTOMATED ANALYSIS SYSTEM | LU, QIANG | — |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968875 | Effective Enclosure Surface Features Design to Optimize Touchable Temperature for Power Adapter Devices | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | — |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 18621862 | BIO-ELECTRICAL SENSING IN AN AUTOINJECTOR | TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968875 | Effective Enclosure Surface Features Design to Optimize Touchable Temperature for Power Adapter Devices | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | 2841 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18175289 | DIGITAL DESIGN FOR AUTOMATION LINE (DDFAUT-LINE) AUTOMATED ANALYSIS SYSTEM | LU, QIANG | 4100 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18621862 | BIO-ELECTRICAL SENSING IN AN AUTOINJECTOR | TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFlex Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Rockshana D Chowdhury has the most, with 1 of Flex Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
