Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution within a limited number of technical groups.
MEHARI, YEMANE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate semiconductor terminology and technical evidence across the 2 art units, while addressing each examiner's issues through separate response plans.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEHARI, YEMANE | 1 | 89.3% | +6.5% |
| QUDDUS, NUSRAT | 1 | 89.2% | +6.0% |
| WONG, TITUS | 1 | 77.5% | +19.6% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.5% | +24.8% |
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.2% | +18.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18761370 | FLYBACK CONVERTER AND SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 16d |
| 19001536 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT COMPARISON CIRCUIT | MEHARI, YEMANE | — |
| 18964772 | CONTROL CIRCUIT WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE STARTUP FUNCTION AND SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930797 | DAISY CHAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WONG, TITUS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18478829 | Protection Circuit of Flyback Converter and Control Method | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 9d overdue |
| 18761370 | FLYBACK CONVERTER AND SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 16d |
| 18930797 | DAISY CHAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WONG, TITUS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 4 |
| 2181 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001536 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT COMPARISON CIRCUIT | MEHARI, YEMANE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 |
| 18964772 | CONTROL CIRCUIT WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE STARTUP FUNCTION AND SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18930797 | DAISY CHAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WONG, TITUS | 2181 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18761370 | FLYBACK CONVERTER AND SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18478829 | Protection Circuit of Flyback Converter and Control Method | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJoulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Yemane Mehari has the most, with 1 of Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
