Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ideal Power Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This case is assigned to examiner SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE. The company's prosecution is concentrated under a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, indicating a highly specific technical focus for its current applications.
SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the current success of the portfolio is tied to a single examiner relationship. Strategy should be developed with a deep understanding of this examiner's specific preferences and the administrative standards of the assigned art unit. As there are no other pending matters to offset potential delays, the practitioner must prioritize precise technical communication to advance this sole active application through the USPTO.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 1 | 84.5% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422469 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF OPERATING A DOUBLE-SIDED DOUBLE-BASE BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2813 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18422469 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF OPERATING A DOUBLE-SIDED DOUBLE-BASE BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIdeal Power Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rhys Poniente Sheker has the most, with 1 of Ideal Power Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.