Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Institute Of Microelectronics Chinese Academy Of Sciences

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
10
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, KYOUNG 1 93.2% +5.0%
YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 1 73.4% +18.6%
LEE, EUGENE 1 81.9% +5.1%
HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 1 84.8% +9.4%
MALEK, MALIHEH 1 78.9% +3.6%
ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 1 85.7% +15.4%
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 1 77.8% -5.0%
DAS, PINAKI 1 92.1% +0.3%
RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G 1 94.9% +2.5%
LEE, WOO KYUNG 1 80.9% +15.3%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18559755 METHOD FOR PREPARING RESERVOIR ELEMENT LEE, EUGENE 36d overdue
18009410 VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CONDUCTIVE LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LEE, WOO KYUNG 35d overdue
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 15d overdue
18543652 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME LEE, KYOUNG 22d
18318794 MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 47d
18042754 NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G 50d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18009410 VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CONDUCTIVE LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LEE, WOO KYUNG 35d overdue
18388233 NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 33d
18318794 MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 47d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2817 3
2815 2
2891 1
2813 1
2818 1
2898 1
2812 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18543652 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME LEE, KYOUNG 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18388233 NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18559755 METHOD FOR PREPARING RESERVOIR ELEMENT LEE, EUGENE 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18263472 VERTICAL MOSFET DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VERTICAL MOSFET DEVICE MALEK, MALIHEH 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18318794 MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE ANDERSON, WILLIAM H 2817 §102 Final Rejection 47d Pending May 17, 2023
18025030 DEVICE HAVING FERROELECTRIC OR NEGATIVE CAPACITANCE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2818 §112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18043080 NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE DAS, PINAKI 2898 Other Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
18042754 NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NOR-TYPE MEMORY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G 2812 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Feb 23, 2023
18009410 VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CONDUCTIVE LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VERTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LEE, WOO KYUNG 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022

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