Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ideal Semiconductor Devices Inc. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 2 pending office actions currently in progress. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, showing a distributed workload for the company's active patent applications. This arrangement suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technological paths within the semiconductor field, each subject to independent review.
The prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the 2 pending office actions involve different technical classifications. TRAN, TONY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners, with no 1 examiner dominating the prosecution process.
Practitioners should note that the involvement of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a flexible approach to patent prosecution. The success of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio is not tied to a single individual, as TRAN, TONY only manages 1 pending office action. This distribution provides a level of variety in the feedback the company receives from the patent office across its 2 active matters.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TONY | 1 | 70.2% | +33.3% |
| CHOI, CALVIN Y | 1 | 81.8% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496277 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | CHOI, CALVIN Y | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496277 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | CHOI, CALVIN Y | 9d |
| 18647072 | NON-CONDUCTING EDGE TERMINATION STRUCTURES FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TRAN, TONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18647072 | NON-CONDUCTING EDGE TERMINATION STRUCTURES FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TRAN, TONY | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18496277 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | CHOI, CALVIN Y | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIdeal Semiconductor Devices Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tony Tran has the most, with 1 of Ideal Semiconductor Devices Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
