Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gigadevice Semiconductor Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Because the count of 3 distinct examiners is equal to the count of 3 pending office actions, each application is handled by a distinct individual. The presence of 3 distinct art units for 3 actions also shows that each matter is being reviewed within a distinct administrative group at the patent office.
BUTLER, SARAI E is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is a portion of the 3 total pending office actions. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution is not concentrated under BUTLER, SARAI E. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the Computing & Software applications cover 3 distinct art units worth of technical sub-sectors.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, SARAI E | 1 | 88.1% | +10.7% |
| RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 1 | 89.5% | +5.3% |
| STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 1 | 77.2% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19309721 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MCU CHIP | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023094 | BUFFER AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19309721 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MCU CHIP | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
| 19005089 | HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE AND CONTROLLER | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2114 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19309721 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MCU CHIP | BUTLER, SARAI E | 2114 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19023094 | BUFFER AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2842 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19005089 | HARDWARE SECURITY MODULE AND CONTROLLER | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
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