Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Invention And Collaboration Laboratory Pte. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 10 actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, showing a broad technical reach within the semiconductor field. Notably, the portfolio involves 10 distinct examiners, which means that each of the 10 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person. This high level of examiner diversity suggests that prosecution outcomes are not dependent on the tendencies of any single individual.
The busiest examiner, GRAY, AARON J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 10 total actions spread across the 10 distinct examiners. Despite this examiner diversity, the concentration within 6 distinct art units may lead to some overlap in the types of rejections or prior art encountered. The 1 pending action under GRAY, AARON J is just 1 component of a decentralized prosecution effort involving 10 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, AARON J | 1 | 82.3% | +29.8% |
| KOO, LAMONT B | 1 | 80.6% | +5.2% |
| PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 1 | 83.6% | +8.7% |
| RODELA, EDUARDO A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.7% |
| NGUYEN, DAO H | 1 | 91.4% | +5.7% |
| AHMED, SHAHED | 1 | 90.8% | -0.1% |
| OH, JIYOUNG | 1 | 77.3% | +21.5% |
| MIHALIOV, DMITRI | 1 | 73.3% | +34.8% |
| SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 52.7% | +33.9% |
| ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 64.6% | +21.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494783 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE WITH VERTICAL TRANSISTOR OVER UNDERGROUND BIT LINE | KOO, LAMONT B | 50d overdue |
| 18200588 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | AHMED, SHAHED | 38d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203688 | PLANAR COMPLEMENTARY MOSFET STRUCTURE TO REDUCE LEAKAGES AND PLANAR AREAS | RODELA, EDUARDO A | 36d overdue |
| 18223560 | MEMORY CELL STRUCTURE | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 2d overdue |
| 17395922 | SRAM Cell Structures | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 5d |
| 17875395 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 23d |
| 18518581 | SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR WITH PRECISE GEOMETRIES AND RELATED MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | GRAY, AARON J | — |
| 18203264 | BULK SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE WITH FULLY ISOLATED SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE SILICON ISLANDS AND THE METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | NGUYEN, DAO H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17395922 | SRAM Cell Structures | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 5d |
| 17875395 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 23d |
| 18518581 | SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR WITH PRECISE GEOMETRIES AND RELATED MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | GRAY, AARON J | — |
| 17993982 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | OH, JIYOUNG | — |
| 17898664 | STANDARD CELL STRUCTURE | MIHALIOV, DMITRI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2813 | 2 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18518581 | SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR WITH PRECISE GEOMETRIES AND RELATED MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | GRAY, AARON J | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 18494783 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE WITH VERTICAL TRANSISTOR OVER UNDERGROUND BIT LINE | KOO, LAMONT B | 2813 | §102 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18223560 | MEMORY CELL STRUCTURE | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 2812 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18203688 | PLANAR COMPLEMENTARY MOSFET STRUCTURE TO REDUCE LEAKAGES AND PLANAR AREAS | RODELA, EDUARDO A | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18203264 | BULK SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE WITH FULLY ISOLATED SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE SILICON ISLANDS AND THE METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | NGUYEN, DAO H | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18200588 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | AHMED, SHAHED | 2813 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17993982 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | OH, JIYOUNG | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2022 |
| 17898664 | STANDARD CELL STRUCTURE | MIHALIOV, DMITRI | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17875395 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17395922 | SRAM Cell Structures | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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