Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iqe PLC manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. CHRISTOPHER A SCHODDE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution workload is widely dispersed, as each of the 5 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner and art unit.
This high level of dispersion across 5 distinct examiners means the company must manage 5 different sets of prosecution timelines and examiner behaviors. Since the 5 pending office actions are located in 5 distinct art units, the portfolio likely covers a broad range of semiconductor technologies. CHRISTOPHER A SCHODDE, despite being the busiest examiner, only manages 1 pending office action, indicating that no single examiner has a majority share of the work. This lack of concentration across the 5 distinct art units requires a versatile strategy to address the varied requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 52.7% | +33.9% |
| WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 1 | 88.7% | +17.9% |
| CHEN, JACK S J | 1 | 76.6% | +5.9% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 37.5% | +26.0% |
| HRNJIC, ADIN | 1 | 66.1% | +9.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18102965 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND METHOD USING A POROUS LAYER HAVING DIFFERENT POROSITIES | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18226474 | LAYERED STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
| 17950670 | Stress Management Layer for GaN HEMT | CHEN, JACK S J | — |
| 17733033 | POROUS RF SWITCH FOR REDUCED CROSSTALK | HRNJIC, ADIN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17875531 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 65d |
| 18226474 | LAYERED STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
| 18102965 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND METHOD USING A POROUS LAYER HAVING DIFFERENT POROSITIES | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18226474 | LAYERED STRUCTURE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18102965 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND METHOD USING A POROUS LAYER HAVING DIFFERENT POROSITIES | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17950670 | Stress Management Layer for GaN HEMT | CHEN, JACK S J | 2893 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17875531 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17733033 | POROUS RF SWITCH FOR REDUCED CROSSTALK | HRNJIC, ADIN | 2817 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialIqe PLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Christopher A Schodde has the most, with 1 of Iqe PLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
