Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Graf Research Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very concentrated prosecution effort, with all current activity focused on a single application. The 1 pending office action represents the company's entire current workload at the USPTO within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the pending office action. Since there is only a single examiner and a single art unit, the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends solely on the evaluation by ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA. This streamlined environment allows for a direct and focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners should note that the art unit will provide the procedural framework for the 1 pending office action.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 1 | 69.1% | +19.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371496 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING AND CATEGORIZING PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES TO IDENTIFY REPACKAGED, REMANUFACTURED, COUNTERFEIT, INFERIOR, SUSPECT, OR MODIFIED DEVICES | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18371496 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING AND CATEGORIZING PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES TO IDENTIFY REPACKAGED, REMANUFACTURED, COUNTERFEIT, INFERIOR, SUSPECT, OR MODIFIED DEVICES | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGraf Research Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yoshihisa Ishizuka has the most, with 1 of Graf Research Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.