Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single pending matter is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution footprint for the current portfolio. The narrow distribution suggests that the company is presently focused on a specific technical niche or a limited set of active applications within this technology area. Practitioners should note that such a focused portfolio allows for a specific response strategy tailored to a single administrative environment.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZARNEKE, DAVID A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload in this category. The prosecution strategy is currently tied to the specific tendencies and historical patterns of this examiner and the 1 distinct art unit involved. Navigating this single point of contact requires a deep understanding of the examiner's requirements to successfully advance the application toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 1 | 71.0% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18340607 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, A DEVICE IMPLEMENTING A THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, AND PROCESSES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 61d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18340607 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, A DEVICE IMPLEMENTING A THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, AND PROCESSES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 61d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2891 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18340607 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, A DEVICE IMPLEMENTING A THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE INTERPOSER, AND PROCESSES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2891 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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