Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mks Inc. manages 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This 1-to-1 ratio of actions to examiners and art units suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the semiconductor field. Each of the 5 pending office actions is being evaluated by a unique set of eyes in a unique technical group, which may lead to varying prosecution timelines and requirements.
HANSEN, JONATHAN M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 5 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution strategy requires navigating multiple specialized groups at the patent office. This decentralized approach means that the outcome of 1 action is unlikely to directly influence the others, as they are spread across 5 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this necessitates a highly individualized approach to each of the 5 pending office actions to account for different examiner perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.5% |
| RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 1 | 87.3% | +8.6% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.7% | +19.9% |
| LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1 | 60.6% | +29.3% |
| CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1 | 66.3% | +22.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830232 | Light-Enhanced Ozone Wafer Processing System and Method of Use | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 21d |
| 18170964 | Method and Apparatus for Integrated Pressure and Flow Controller | ROST, ANDREW J | 34d |
| 19023750 | Arc Analysis Based On Multiple Engineered Arc Detection Sources And State Data | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830232 | Light-Enhanced Ozone Wafer Processing System and Method of Use | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 21d |
| 18170964 | Method and Apparatus for Integrated Pressure and Flow Controller | ROST, ANDREW J | 34d |
| 17983934 | Methods and Systems for Feedback Control in Plasma Processing Using Radical Sensing | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 70d |
| 19135276 | GAS CONCENTRATION SENSOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19135276 | GAS CONCENTRATION SENSOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19023750 | Arc Analysis Based On Multiple Engineered Arc Detection Sources And State Data | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2858 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18170964 | Method and Apparatus for Integrated Pressure and Flow Controller | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 17983934 | Methods and Systems for Feedback Control in Plasma Processing Using Radical Sensing | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17830232 | Light-Enhanced Ozone Wafer Processing System and Method of Use | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1711 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMks Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Jonathan M Hansen has the most, with 1 of Mks Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
