Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently includes 4 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, meaning that each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 of the company's pending matters. The prosecution is divided between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's semiconductor and circuit innovations fall into at least 2 different technical classifications.
CRUZ, MAGDA is identified as the busiest examiner, though this examiner is only managing 1 pending office action. This workload is the same for the other examiners involved in the portfolio. For practitioners, this data shows a fragmented prosecution landscape where 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 different examiners. While the work is limited to 2 distinct art units, the need to interact with multiple separate individuals requires a broad strategy.
No single examiner, including CRUZ, MAGDA, has a dominant influence over the company's current pending workload, as each handles only a portion of the total actions. This distribution across multiple distinct examiners suggests that the company's progress in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field is subject to a variety of examination styles. The 1 pending office action assigned to CRUZ, MAGDA represents 1 of the 4 total pending actions. The presence of 4 pending office actions indicates a higher volume of activity than portfolios with fewer matters.
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 (43%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRUZ, MAGDA | 1 | 87.1% | +9.7% |
| ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 1 | 82.5% | +18.6% |
| NGUYEN, HIEU P | 1 | 92.1% | +5.1% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.8% | -11.8% |
| CRITE, ANTONIO B | 1 | 81.6% | -13.4% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +6.0% |
| BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | 1 | 48.3% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607592 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 114d overdue |
| 18897837 | OUTPUT IMAGE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD | CRUZ, MAGDA | — |
| 18604433 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEU P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895117 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CRITE, ANTONIO B | — |
| 18604464 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607592 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 114d overdue |
| 18507113 | SUPPORT STAGE, SUPPORT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18897837 | OUTPUT IMAGE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD | CRUZ, MAGDA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18607592 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18604433 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEU P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18473582 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18895117 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CRITE, ANTONIO B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18604464 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18507113 | SUPPORT STAGE, SUPPORT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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