Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Reliance Memory Limited is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is currently focused within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very specific technical review for the 1 pending office action.
The busiest examiner for the company is MENZ, LAURA MARY. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for the entire 1 pending office action currently associated with the company's portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area depends on the findings of MENZ, LAURA MARY. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a centralized examination process for this single matter.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | 1 | 94.1% | +14.9% |
| MENZ, LAURA MARY | 1 | 87.7% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605687 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY STRUCTURE WITH POSITIONED DOPING | MENZ, LAURA MARY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084478 | RESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY WITH HYBRID BONDING INTEGRATION | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084478 | RESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY WITH HYBRID BONDING INTEGRATION | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2827 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084478 | RESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY WITH HYBRID BONDING INTEGRATION | COON, BRADLEY SCOTT | 2827 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18605687 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY STRUCTURE WITH POSITIONED DOPING | MENZ, LAURA MARY | 2813 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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