Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. manages a large portfolio of 14 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 14 distinct examiners, meaning that every single pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This complete decentralization of the workload across 14 distinct examiners provides a wide variety of perspectives on the company's semiconductor innovations. The portfolio's technical reach is also significant, as it spans 5 distinct art units within the patent office. This distribution across 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's research covers multiple specialized sub-fields of integrated circuit technology. Practitioners must tailor their prosecution strategies to the specific standards of each of the 5 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, QUINTO, KEVIN V, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there are 14 distinct examiners for the 14 total pending actions, no single official has a disproportionate influence on the portfolio's overall progress. For practitioners, the presence of 5 distinct art units indicates that prosecution strategies must be highly adaptable. The 14 pending office actions represent a substantial and technically diverse effort to secure intellectual property. This arrangement requires managing 14 separate examiner interactions across 5 different technical divisions to resolve the 14 pending office actions. The decentralized nature of the portfolio provides the company with a broad range of independent reviews for its semiconductor innovations across the various technical fields identified in the data.
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 | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 5 (36%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINTO, KEVIN V | 1 | 85.0% | +1.7% |
| KIM, JEANNE MYON | 1 | — | — |
| PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 1 | 83.6% | +8.7% |
| SUN, YU-HSI DAVID | 1 | 77.5% | +8.4% |
| DINKE, BITEW A | 1 | 72.9% | +12.4% |
| WALL, VINCENT | 1 | 62.5% | +24.4% |
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 1 | 85.8% | -36.2% |
| BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | 1 | — | — |
| BELL, LAUREN R | 1 | 40.3% | +32.3% |
| ARORA, AJAY | 1 | 84.3% | +6.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822268 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | QUINTO, KEVIN V | — |
| 18780504 | CONTACT STRUCTURE, CONTACT PAD LAYOUT AND STRUCTURE, MASK COMBINATION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | — |
| 18633510 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424882 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | BELL, LAUREN R | — |
| 18418325 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | ARORA, AJAY | — |
| 18376424 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677845 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | DINKE, BITEW A | — |
| 18649999 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | WALL, VINCENT | — |
| 18424882 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | BELL, LAUREN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822268 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | QUINTO, KEVIN V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2024 |
| 18789716 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | KIM, JEANNE MYON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18780504 | CONTACT STRUCTURE, CONTACT PAD LAYOUT AND STRUCTURE, MASK COMBINATION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18747431 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SUN, YU-HSI DAVID | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18677845 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | DINKE, BITEW A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18649999 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | WALL, VINCENT | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18633510 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18586526 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2024 |
| 18424882 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF | BELL, LAUREN R | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18418325 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | ARORA, AJAY | 2892 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2024 |
| 18380667 | METHOD OF FORMING PHOTOMASK, LAYOUT PATTERN AND SYSTEM FOR PATTERNING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE BY USING PHOTOMASK | AISAKA, BRYCE M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18376424 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18195950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING WORD LINES ARRANGED IN DIFFERENT PITCHES | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18124563 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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