Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hoseo University Academic Cooperation Foundation manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, showing that each case involves a different technical specialty. The foundation works with 3 distinct examiners, so no two cases are being reviewed by the same person.
O NEILL, PATRICK is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and a matching number of distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one case. This distribution prevents any consolidation of prosecution efforts with a single examiner.
Practitioners must navigate 3 distinct art units, each likely having its own interpretation of semiconductor and optics standards. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the outcome of each of the 3 pending office actions will depend on individual examiner discretion. The lack of examiner overlap means that successful arguments in one case may not be easily transferred to the others, and O NEILL, PATRICK will only influence a single matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O NEILL, PATRICK | 1 | 83.5% | +17.3% |
| SADLER, NATHAN | 1 | 70.9% | +26.4% |
| NGUYEN, LONG T | 1 | 89.4% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751562 | CMOS inverter circuit | NGUYEN, LONG T | 19d |
| 19312566 | INVERTER AND BOOTSTRAP INVERTER WITH IMPROVED OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS | O NEILL, PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942321 | MEMORY MAPPING SYSTEM FOR REDUCING DATA RETRIEVAL COST IN STORAGE CONSISTING OF MULTIPLE MEMORIES | SADLER, NATHAN | 15d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942321 | MEMORY MAPPING SYSTEM FOR REDUCING DATA RETRIEVAL COST IN STORAGE CONSISTING OF MULTIPLE MEMORIES | SADLER, NATHAN | 15d overdue |
| 19312566 | INVERTER AND BOOTSTRAP INVERTER WITH IMPROVED OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS | O NEILL, PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19312566 | INVERTER AND BOOTSTRAP INVERTER WITH IMPROVED OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS | O NEILL, PATRICK | 2836 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 18942321 | MEMORY MAPPING SYSTEM FOR REDUCING DATA RETRIEVAL COST IN STORAGE CONSISTING OF MULTIPLE MEMORIES | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18751562 | CMOS inverter circuit | NGUYEN, LONG T | 2842 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHoseo University Academic Cooperation Foundation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Patrick O Neill has the most, with 1 of Hoseo University Academic Cooperation Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
