Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
KEMET Corporation has 6 pending office actions currently active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 6 pending office actions are distributed among 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's semiconductor and optics research is being evaluated across multiple technical departments. The 6 pending office actions represent a moderate level of ongoing prosecution activity within these 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's technology is being tested against diverse sets of prior art.
The company deals with 5 distinct examiners for these filings. TSO, STANLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. Since TSO, STANLEY handles 2 of the 6 pending office actions, this individual has a larger impact on the portfolio's immediate trajectory than the other distinct examiners involved in the company's patent applications. This concentration of 2 busiest examiner pending actions with TSO, STANLEY means that a significant portion of the active cases is under the review of a single official, while the remaining 4 distinct art units provide some technical breadth.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSO, STANLEY | 2 | 75.5% | +34.3% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.3% | +15.2% |
| TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GEYER, SCOTT B | 1 | 94.2% | +4.2% |
| FERGUSON, DION | 1 | 87.0% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594540 | Solid Electrolytic Capacitor with Improved ESR and Leakage | GEYER, SCOTT B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441695 | Polymer Capacitors with Improved Reliability | FERGUSON, DION | 29d |
| 19085654 | CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURING BASED ON OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION DISPERSION | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| 18775792 | OF ANODE LEAD ATTACHMENT FOR SOLID CATHODE ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR | TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135551 | Electrically Functional Circuit Board Core Material | TSO, STANLEY | 72d |
| 19085654 | CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURING BASED ON OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION DISPERSION | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| 18615432 | Electrically Functional Circuit Board Core Material | TSO, STANLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 3 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2848 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19085654 | CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF ITS MANUFACTURING BASED ON OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION DISPERSION | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18775792 | OF ANODE LEAD ATTACHMENT FOR SOLID CATHODE ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR | TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 2847 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18615432 | Electrically Functional Circuit Board Core Material | TSO, STANLEY | 2847 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18594540 | Solid Electrolytic Capacitor with Improved ESR and Leakage | GEYER, SCOTT B | 2812 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18441695 | Polymer Capacitors with Improved Reliability | FERGUSON, DION | 2848 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18135551 | Electrically Functional Circuit Board Core Material | TSO, STANLEY | 2847 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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