Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hpsp Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, showing that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is also spread across 3 distinct art units, which suggests a variety of technical focuses within the company's semiconductor-related filings. BOWMAN, MARY ELLEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a pending office action currently assigned.
For practitioners, this means there is no central examiner to focus on; instead, three separate prosecution strategies must be maintained. The involvement of 3 distinct art units further complicates the landscape, as each of the 3 pending office actions will be subject to the specific procedural and technical standards of a different unit within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. This perfectly even distribution across examiners and art units suggests a diversified intellectual property strategy where each of the 3 pending office actions must be managed as a unique case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWMAN, MARY ELLEN | 1 | 82.0% | +18.1% |
| KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 33.5% | +21.8% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892852 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD | BOWMAN, MARY ELLEN | — |
| 18536583 | HIGH PRESSURE SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18467838 | GAS BOX ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892852 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD | BOWMAN, MARY ELLEN | — |
| 18536583 | HIGH PRESSURE SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18467838 | GAS BOX ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18892852 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD | BOWMAN, MARY ELLEN | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18536583 | HIGH PRESSURE SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18467838 | GAS BOX ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHpsp Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mary Ellen Bowman has the most, with 1 of Hpsp Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
