Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 13 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. has 19 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 19 examiners across 13 art units, indicating wide examiner dispersion with substantial art-unit concentration. The matching pending-action and examiner figures show that each recorded matter has a distinct examiner, while the smaller art-unit figure indicates that multiple matters are grouped within certain technical units.
HOLLWEG, THOMAS A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration appears in the recorded workload, so counsel should emphasize technical consistency across semiconductor and circuit matters while developing responses tailored to the several art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (32%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +31.5% |
| BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | 1 | 84.9% | +17.2% |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 1 | 72.9% | +20.8% |
| PEACE, RHONDA S | 1 | 85.5% | +12.5% |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 1 | 75.8% | +20.4% |
| BOOTH, RICHARD A | 1 | 86.0% | +8.3% |
| CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 1 | 78.5% | +0.4% |
| GREEN, TELLY D | 1 | 82.0% | +4.0% |
| BODNAR, JOHN A | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728155 | A CAVITY-ENHANCED WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTOR | PEACE, RHONDA S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230977 | ASYMMETRIC JUNCTIONLESS FIN FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS | TAYLOR, EARL N | 45d overdue |
| 18513983 | STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES INCLUDING A PASSIVE DEVICE | GREEN, TELLY D | 77d |
| 18860765 | OPTICAL BEAM SCULPTING ASSEMBLY | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | — |
| 18853483 | BALANCED DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION SCHEMES FOR SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | — |
| 18666789 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING NON-UNIFORM PATTERN DENSITY FOR HYBRID BONDING | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — |
| 18639641 | VIA BARS INTERLEAVED WITH CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | — |
| 18613788 | HALL EFFECT SENSORS | BOOTH, RICHARD A | — |
| 18397008 | ELECTROSTATIC DEVICE | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860765 | OPTICAL BEAM SCULPTING ASSEMBLY | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | — |
| 18853483 | BALANCED DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION SCHEMES FOR SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | — |
| 18790086 | BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| 18728155 | A CAVITY-ENHANCED WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTOR | PEACE, RHONDA S | — |
| 18639641 | VIA BARS INTERLEAVED WITH CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | — |
| 18232868 | RESISTIVE MEMORY ELEMENTS WITH A MULTIPLE-MATERIAL ELECTRODE | BODNAR, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2896 | 2 |
| 2814 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860765 | OPTICAL BEAM SCULPTING ASSEMBLY | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18853483 | BALANCED DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION SCHEMES FOR SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18790086 | BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2891 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18728155 | A CAVITY-ENHANCED WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTOR | PEACE, RHONDA S | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18666789 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING NON-UNIFORM PATTERN DENSITY FOR HYBRID BONDING | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 2899 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18639641 | VIA BARS INTERLEAVED WITH CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18613788 | HALL EFFECT SENSORS | BOOTH, RICHARD A | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18397008 | ELECTROSTATIC DEVICE | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 2813 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18513983 | STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES INCLUDING A PASSIVE DEVICE | GREEN, TELLY D | 2898 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18232868 | RESISTIVE MEMORY ELEMENTS WITH A MULTIPLE-MATERIAL ELECTRODE | BODNAR, JOHN A | 2893 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18230977 | ASYMMETRIC JUNCTIONLESS FIN FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS | TAYLOR, EARL N | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18359059 | CAVITY WITH NEGATIVE SLOPED SIDEWALL OVER GATE AND RELATED METHOD | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18332147 | CAVITY WITH BOTTOM HAVING DIELECTRIC LAYER PORTION OVER GATE BODY WITHOUT ETCH STOP LAYER AND RELATED METHOD | LUKE, DANIEL M | 2896 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18308322 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE DEVICES | GRAY, AARON J | 2897 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18149200 | BACK GATE ION-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR SENSING WITH STACKED HIGH-K NANOSHEETS | KIELIN, ERIK J | 2814 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 18065632 | ANTIFUSE DEVICES WITH ADJACENT DUMMY STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | BAUMAN, SCOTT E | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 18058932 | STRUCTURE WITH COPPER BOND PAD AND COPPER INTERCONNECT | MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON | 2814 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17817430 | RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICES WITH A CAVITY BETWEEN ELECTRODES | RAHIM, NILUFA | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17864499 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED DEVICES WITH STRESS-REDUCTION FEATURES | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 2898 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGlobalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 19 examiners.
Thomas A Hollweg has the most, with 1 of Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
