Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 7 art units, showing that prosecution is distributed across nearly as many technical assignments as examiner relationships.
LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a concentrated share of the docket on the supplied data. Counsel therefore faces a coordination task across multiple examination relationships and art units rather than a single recurring point of contact.
The assignment pattern supports maintaining matter-specific prosecution strategies while tracking consistency in claim treatment across the semiconductor portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 1 | 83.8% | +50.7% |
| HAQUE, MD NAZMUL | 1 | 83.4% | +15.4% |
| PELTON, NATHANIEL R | 1 | 74.5% | +18.9% |
| RICHTER, KARA | 1 | — | — |
| TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | 1 | 54.5% | +23.7% |
| ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 1 | — | — |
| BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 1 | 46.3% | +2.4% |
| AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 1 | 8.0% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427001 | Method of Automatically Determining Sensor Placement in a Target Environment | HAQUE, MD NAZMUL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179398 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER | AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 72d |
| 19095214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING TEXT WRITING | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179398 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER | AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 72d |
| 19095214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING TEXT WRITING | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | — |
| 18427001 | Method of Automatically Determining Sensor Placement in a Target Environment | HAQUE, MD NAZMUL | — |
| 18089878 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ON-SITE DETERMINATION OF CHARGING CURRENT FOR A BATTERY | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — |
| 18437266 | Gate Driving Circuit for Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Devices | TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 2 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2123 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING TEXT WRITING | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 2656 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18427001 | Method of Automatically Determining Sensor Placement in a Target Environment | HAQUE, MD NAZMUL | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18089878 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ON-SITE DETERMINATION OF CHARGING CURRENT FOR A BATTERY | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17898956 | Systems and Methods for Time of Flight Measurement Implementing Threshold-Based Sampling for Waveform Digitizing | RICHTER, KARA | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 18437266 | Gate Driving Circuit for Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Devices | TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | 2859 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18518621 | LIDAR APPARATUS | ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18512428 | SPEED BRIDGE FOR EMULATION HARDWARE | BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 3992 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18179398 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER | AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 2123 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Philip Hung Fai Lam has the most, with 1 of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
