Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joulwatt Technology Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics with 4 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technological focus within this sector is spread across multiple specialized examination groups. The prosecution workload is currently handled by 4 distinct examiners, which provides a diversified exposure to different examination styles and preferences.
YEMANE MEHARI is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though this individual is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is not dominated by any individual examiner. Practitioners should note that the 4 pending office actions are spread among the examiners, requiring a strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of each individual rather than a centralized approach. This variety in examination personnel suggests that the company's legal team must be prepared to adapt their arguments to various perspectives within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 (100%) |
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 | 89.4% | +6.4% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.4% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18761370 | FLYBACK CONVERTER AND SWITCH CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 16d |
| 19001536 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT COMPARISON CIRCUIT | MEHARI, YEMANE | — |
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 2 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001536 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT COMPARISON CIRCUIT | MEHARI, YEMANE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 25, 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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