Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique currently has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, showing that every pending matter falls into a unique technical classification. The company is interacting with 7 distinct examiners, which means that every pending office action is being handled by a different individual. This fragmentation reflects the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the research being conducted by the institute.
FAYE, MAMADOU is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 case. The presence of 7 distinct art units for 7 actions highlights the high degree of technical variety in the company's current research and development efforts. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate 7 different examiner styles and 7 different art unit environments, as there is no concentration of cases under any single person or group. This requires a highly customized prosecution strategy for each individual application currently under review.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 1 | 78.5% | +6.5% |
| ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 1 | 66.8% | +23.2% |
| OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | 1 | 63.7% | +20.7% |
| PENG, CHARLIE YU | 1 | 75.5% | +13.1% |
| HAM, JIEUN | 1 | 45.5% | +0.0% |
| LI, LARRY | 1 | 66.7% | +66.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206571 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STABLE ULTRASHORT PULSES OF XUV AND SOFT X-RAY RADIATION | FAYE, MAMADOU | — |
| 18787692 | ON-CHIP INTERFEROMETRY SYSTEM FOR HIGH SECRET KEY RATE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION BASED ON ENTANGLED PHOTONIC QUDITS | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| 18492974 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-PIXEL IMAGING | LI, LARRY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857077 | A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE IMAGING | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | — |
| 18810064 | Method and Apparatus for Optical Information Processing | OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | — |
| 18787692 | ON-CHIP INTERFEROMETRY SYSTEM FOR HIGH SECRET KEY RATE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION BASED ON ENTANGLED PHOTONIC QUDITS | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| 18492974 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-PIXEL IMAGING | LI, LARRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206571 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STABLE ULTRASHORT PULSES OF XUV AND SOFT X-RAY RADIATION | FAYE, MAMADOU | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18857077 | A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR 3D SURFACE IMAGING | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18810064 | Method and Apparatus for Optical Information Processing | OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | 2156 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18787692 | ON-CHIP INTERFEROMETRY SYSTEM FOR HIGH SECRET KEY RATE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION BASED ON ENTANGLED PHOTONIC QUDITS | PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18558963 | GALECTIN-1-SPECIFIC MONOVALENT ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF | HAM, JIEUN | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18492974 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-PIXEL IMAGING | LI, LARRY | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Mamadou Faye has the most, with 1 of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
