Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • 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
Ihp GmbH - Innovations For High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-Institut Fur Innovative Mikro operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the prosecution involves multiple art units, suggesting that the pending office actions cover different technical niches within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
The busiest examiner, OH, JIYOUNG, is currently assigned 1 pending action. Because there are multiple actions in total, OH, JIYOUNG handles a portion of the current workload. The fact that distinct examiners are working across several art units shows a complete lack of examiner overlap in the current portfolio status.
This distribution requires the company to manage separate prosecution tracks. With distinct art units involved, the examination criteria may vary significantly between the pending office actions. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct feedback from OH, JIYOUNG and the other examiner, as the actions are isolated in both personnel and administrative units.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OH, JIYOUNG | 1 | 77.3% | +21.5% |
| VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 1 | 58.7% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563493 | PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING ARRAY FOR TIME-DISCRETE PROCESSING OF ANALOG SIGNALS | VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 85d overdue |
| 18080317 | FAN-OUT WAFER-LEVEL PACKAGE | OH, JIYOUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18080317 | FAN-OUT WAFER-LEVEL PACKAGE | OH, JIYOUNG | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17563493 | PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING ARRAY FOR TIME-DISCRETE PROCESSING OF ANALOG SIGNALS | VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 2151 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
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