Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Menlo Microsystems Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently contains 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners. The 5 pending actions are spread across 5 distinct art units.
DUMBRIS, SETH M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is 1 of 5 individuals each managing a pending action for the company. The alignment of distinct examiners with distinct art units shows that each pending office action is being reviewed in a different unit. Practitioners should be prepared to tailor their prosecution strategies to the 5 distinct art units and the examiners simultaneously. This distribution across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area suggests a range of technical subject matter in the current pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.6% |
| LEE, SANGKYUNG | 1 | 60.1% | +10.3% |
| LY, XUAN | 1 | 85.4% | +6.4% |
| JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | 1 | 86.6% | +5.1% |
| HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 1 | 80.2% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498766 | MEMS SWITCH WITH PLANAR THROUGH GLASS VIAS (TGV) | JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | 5d |
| 18394444 | Self-Powered Smart Switch | LY, XUAN | — |
| 18330565 | MEMS SWITCH UTILIZING CONDUCTIVE BARRIER LAYER | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772083 | Two stage plating for reduced Ni and NiO layer formation | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772083 | Two stage plating for reduced Ni and NiO layer formation | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 18430187 | MEMS hot switch testing system | LEE, SANGKYUNG | — |
| 18330565 | MEMS SWITCH UTILIZING CONDUCTIVE BARRIER LAYER | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772083 | Two stage plating for reduced Ni and NiO layer formation | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1787 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18430187 | MEMS hot switch testing system | LEE, SANGKYUNG | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18394444 | Self-Powered Smart Switch | LY, XUAN | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18498766 | MEMS SWITCH WITH PLANAR THROUGH GLASS VIAS (TGV) | JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER | 2899 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18330565 | MEMS SWITCH UTILIZING CONDUCTIVE BARRIER LAYER | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 2841 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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