Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Iqe PLC

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

1
Hard (25%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

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
4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A 1 51.7% +35.6%
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 1 88.4% +19.6%
NELSON, HUNTER JARED 1 32.0% +36.8%
HRNJIC, ADIN 1 65.5% +10.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18102965 LAYERED STRUCTURE AND METHOD USING A POROUS LAYER HAVING DIFFERENT POROSITIES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17733033 POROUS RF SWITCH FOR REDUCED CROSSTALK HRNJIC, ADIN

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
17733033 POROUS RF SWITCH FOR REDUCED CROSSTALK HRNJIC, ADIN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2898 1
2892 1
2828 1
2817 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18226474 LAYERED STRUCTURE SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A 2898 §103 Final Rejection 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
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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