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
Inmicro Technology Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Currently, there is 1 pending office action, which represents the full scope of the company's active dialogue with the patent office. This single action suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is directed toward a specific technological advancement in the semiconductor field.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. This concentration of the pending office action under a single examiner within one unit indicates a very narrow administrative footprint. For the company, this means that the prosecution process is centralized, with no distribution of active matters across different examiners or art units at this time.
HINSON, RONALD is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is managing all of the company's current active matters. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for this single pending action highlights a streamlined and singular prosecution path for Inmicro Technology Ltd.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINSON, RONALD | 1 | 73.9% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144900 | COIL INDUCTOR, POWER CONVERTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | HINSON, RONALD | 39d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144900 | COIL INDUCTOR, POWER CONVERTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | HINSON, RONALD | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18144900 | COIL INDUCTOR, POWER CONVERTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | HINSON, RONALD | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
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