Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Littelfuse Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions currently active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These cases are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which distributes the prosecution workload across different individuals. The matters are also located in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's semiconductor filings are being reviewed under different technical classifications at the USPTO.
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared between the 2 distinct examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technical paths within the semiconductor field. Practitioners must adapt to the specific preferences of two different examiners rather than focusing on a single point of contact.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 1 | 88.7% | +17.9% |
| BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 1 | 76.6% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526436 | SCR STRUCTURE WITH HIGH NOISE IMMUNITY | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526436 | SCR STRUCTURE WITH HIGH NOISE IMMUNITY | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | — |
| 18369054 | BIDIRECTIONAL ASYMMETRIC TRANSIENT VOLTAGE SUPPRESSOR DEVICE | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526436 | SCR STRUCTURE WITH HIGH NOISE IMMUNITY | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 2892 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18369054 | BIDIRECTIONAL ASYMMETRIC TRANSIENT VOLTAGE SUPPRESSOR DEVICE | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLittelfuse Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sean Ayers Winters has the most, with 1 of Littelfuse Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
