Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Institutes Of Physical Science Cas has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, representing a highly specific point of prosecution. This concentration means that the company's current interaction with the USPTO is entirely focused on a single technical review process, which simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
BOLTON, WILLIAM A serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there is only a single pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current active workload at the patent office. For the practitioner, this creates a situation where the outcome of the entire pending portfolio depends on the decisions of BOLTON, WILLIAM A. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the pending office action ensures that there are no conflicting examiner perspectives to manage at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLTON, WILLIAM A | 1 | 89.3% | +5.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802546 | EXPLOSION-DRIVEN MULTI-BREAK CIRCUIT BREAKER | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802546 | EXPLOSION-DRIVEN MULTI-BREAK CIRCUIT BREAKER | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHefei Institutes Of Physical Science Cas has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William A Bolton has the most, with 1 of Hefei Institutes Of Physical Science Cas's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
