Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microsemi Soc Corp. has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. PHAM, LY D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, there is no overlap in personnel, though the 2 distinct art units suggest some technical grouping. This distribution means that each of the 3 pending office actions is being evaluated independently, requiring a separate strategy for each case.
The Communications technology area is the broad field for these 3 pending office actions. Because there are 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the applicant faces a diverse prosecution environment. PHAM, LY D, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is just one of three different voices the company must address. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the 3 pending office actions may cover different technical aspects of communications technology. For the practitioner, this means that the 3 pending office actions represent three separate negotiations. There is no central examiner or art unit to focus on, so each case must be managed based on its own merits and the specific tendencies of the 3 distinct examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, LY D | 1 | 94.0% | +3.4% |
| PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 1 | 91.1% | +8.7% |
| HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | 1 | 93.4% | +1.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821885 | A CONFIGURATION MEMORY CELL | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | 4d overdue |
| 18962961 | CONFIGURATION MEMORY CELL | PHAM, LY D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903799 | Device and Method for Signal Retiming | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 1 |
| 2827 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962961 | CONFIGURATION MEMORY CELL | PHAM, LY D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18903799 | Device and Method for Signal Retiming | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 2635 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18821885 | A CONFIGURATION MEMORY CELL | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | 2827 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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