Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. is currently managing 8 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite this variety of examiners, the entire portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the individual perspectives may vary, the technical focus of the prosecution remains very narrow and consistent.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RAHMAN, THASLIMUR, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 8 pending office actions in total, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no single examiner handling more than one case. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate multiple examiner styles simultaneously within the same technical field. However, the use of 1 distinct art unit provides a stable procedural and technical framework for all actions.
Practitioners handling the Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. portfolio must coordinate their responses to ensure consistency across the 8 pending office actions. Since RAHMAN, THASLIMUR and the other examiners are all operating within the same art unit, they may share similar technical benchmarks or internal guidelines. The challenge lies in managing separate examiner relationships while leveraging the unified technical context provided by the art unit in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 (12%) |
| §112 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TA, THO DAC | 1 | 86.4% | +15.2% |
| RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | 1 | 87.9% | +8.2% |
| SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 1 | 40.5% | +23.4% |
| NGUYEN, TRUC T | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
| NGUYEN, THANG H | 1 | 84.8% | +15.2% |
| LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | 1 | 88.2% | +6.5% |
| GUSHI, ROSS N | 1 | 83.9% | +2.2% |
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18786095 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR CIRCUIT BOARDS | TA, THO DAC | — |
| 18660636 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMBINATION | NGUYEN, TRUC T | — |
| 18660643 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THANG H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749468 | MAGNETIC SENSOR DEVICE AND ROTATION SENSING DEVICE | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 36d overdue |
| 18785780 | ELECTRIC CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | — |
| 18640655 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | — |
| 18640818 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | GUSHI, ROSS 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749468 | MAGNETIC SENSOR DEVICE AND ROTATION SENSING DEVICE | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 36d overdue |
| 18786095 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR CIRCUIT BOARDS | TA, THO DAC | — |
| 18660643 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THANG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18786095 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR CIRCUIT BOARDS | TA, THO DAC | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785780 | ELECTRIC CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18749468 | MAGNETIC SENSOR DEVICE AND ROTATION SENSING DEVICE | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18660636 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMBINATION | NGUYEN, TRUC T | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18660643 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, THANG H | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18640655 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | LOPEZ PAGAN, CARLOS EMILIO | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18640818 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | GUSHI, ROSS N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18212927 | TEST PROBES AND TEST SOCKET FOR USE WITH THE SAME | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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