Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hitachi High-Tech Analysis Corporation currently faces 8 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are handled by 8 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is assigned to a different individual. While the examiners are all unique, they are grouped within 5 distinct art units, showing some concentration of technical subject matter at the departmental level. This structure suggests that while the specific reviewers vary, the technical themes of the applications are somewhat related.
REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 8 pending office actions in total, the portfolio is spread thin across the patent office's personnel. This structure implies that the outcomes of the 8 pending actions will depend on the individual interpretations of 8 different examiners rather than a centralized negotiation with a single primary contact. The presence of 5 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio touches on several different technological niches within the semiconductor and optics space. Practitioners must manage these 8 separate examiner relationships to ensure consistent outcomes.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | 1 | 57.5% | +41.8% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.3% |
| LI, LARRY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
| TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1 | 66.4% | +6.6% |
| LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 68.9% | +16.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799464 | THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18692789 | CONTROL METHOD, CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | LI, LARRY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412139 | X-RAY TRANSMISSION INSPECTION APPARATUS AND X-RAY TRANSMISSION INSPECTION METHOD | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 23d |
| 19219190 | Particle Measurement Apparatus | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | — |
| 18584812 | HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING METHOD | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| 18058698 | AMINO ACID ANALYSIS METHOD AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC APPARATUS | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219190 | Particle Measurement Apparatus | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | — |
| 18799464 | THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18584812 | HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING METHOD | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| 18058698 | AMINO ACID ANALYSIS METHOD AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC APPARATUS | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219190 | Particle Measurement Apparatus | REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18799464 | THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE | COTEY, PHILIP L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18692789 | CONTROL METHOD, CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | LI, LARRY | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18584812 | HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN IMPURITY TESTING METHOD | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18412139 | X-RAY TRANSMISSION INSPECTION APPARATUS AND X-RAY TRANSMISSION INSPECTION METHOD | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18202626 | LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1684 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18058698 | AMINO ACID ANALYSIS METHOD AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC APPARATUS | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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