Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
18 pending office actions • 8 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. currently has 18 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are handled by distinct examiners, meaning every pending case is assigned to a different person. Prosecution spans 7 distinct art units, indicating significant technical variety within the semiconductor field. BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The perfect ratio of pending actions to examiners suggests that no single individual has a dominant influence over the current portfolio. Managing 7 distinct art units simultaneously requires attention to the specific nuances of various semiconductor examination divisions. This decentralized prosecution environment means the applicant must adapt to many different individual perspectives. The breadth of the art units suggests the company is active across several specialized semiconductor technologies. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each assigned division to ensure consistent results across the 18 active matters.
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 | 8 (44%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | 1 | 85.2% | +16.9% |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 1 | 72.8% | +20.5% |
| PEACE, RHONDA S | 1 | 85.4% | +12.6% |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| BOOTH, RICHARD A | 1 | 85.9% | +8.3% |
| HOANG, TUAN A | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
| CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 1 | 78.4% | +0.4% |
| GREEN, TELLY D | 1 | 82.0% | +3.9% |
| BODNAR, JOHN A | 1 | 83.2% | +11.9% |
| TAYLOR, EARL N | 1 | 88.1% | +6.3% |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18613788 | HALL EFFECT SENSORS | BOOTH, RICHARD A | — |
| 18397008 | ELECTROSTATIC DEVICE | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | — |
| 18232868 | RESISTIVE MEMORY ELEMENTS WITH A MULTIPLE-MATERIAL ELECTRODE | BODNAR, JOHN A | — |
| 18308322 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE DEVICES | GRAY, AARON J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18596068 | NEURON CIRCUITS FOR A SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON A VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED MAGNETIC-TUNNEL-JUNCTION LAYER STACK | HOANG, TUAN A | — |
| 18232868 | RESISTIVE MEMORY ELEMENTS WITH A MULTIPLE-MATERIAL ELECTRODE | BODNAR, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 3 |
| 2893 | 3 |
| 2814 | 2 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853483 | BALANCED DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION SCHEMES FOR SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18790086 | BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18728155 | A CAVITY-ENHANCED WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTOR | PEACE, RHONDA S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18666789 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING NON-UNIFORM PATTERN DENSITY FOR HYBRID BONDING | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18613788 | HALL EFFECT SENSORS | BOOTH, RICHARD A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18596068 | NEURON CIRCUITS FOR A SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON A VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED MAGNETIC-TUNNEL-JUNCTION LAYER STACK | HOANG, TUAN A | 2898 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 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 |
| 18308322 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE DEVICES | GRAY, AARON J | 2897 | §102§103 | 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 |
| 17974823 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE CONTROL DEVICES | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 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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