Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 9 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 107 patents granted in the last 365 days
Molex LLC has 18 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 17 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. TRUC T NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 pending actions. The presence of 8 distinct art units for 18 pending office actions indicates that the company's innovations are classified into several different technical groups at the USPTO.
With 17 distinct examiners involved, almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that Molex LLC's patenting activities cover a range of specialized fields within the semiconductor and optics domain, requiring interactions with many different examiners across multiple units. With 18 pending office actions, the company is in an active phase of patent prosecution. The involvement of 17 distinct examiners means that the company's legal team must be prepared for a variety of individual examiner perspectives and styles. The 8 distinct art units further demonstrate the technical diversity of the company's filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 9 (47%) |
| §102 only | 3 (16%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (26%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
| PAYNE, DAVID C | 1 | 47.8% | +32.2% |
| ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 72.4% | +15.6% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | 1 | 90.5% | +4.0% |
| GUSHI, ROSS N | 1 | 83.9% | +2.2% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 74.8% | +23.4% |
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.4% |
| CHIEM, DINH D | 1 | 72.3% | +16.3% |
| DINH, LYNDA | 1 | 73.9% | +28.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903002 | INFORMATION TRANSFER FROM TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL UNITS TO COMPENSATORS WITH TIME-KEYING TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SWITCHING SIGNALS | NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | — |
| 18747510 | CONNECTOR | GUSHI, ROSS N | — |
| 18676526 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
| 18592575 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, TRUC T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17889572 | BATTERY CONNECTION MODULE AND BATTERY PACK | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 10d overdue |
| 17794745 | REAL-TIME CABLE ASSEMBLY CONFIGURATOR WITH CUSTOM CONNECTORS | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 10d overdue |
| 19056949 | NON-INVASIVE REAL-TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MxN OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH WITH MEMS MIRROR ARRAY BASED SWITCH ENGINE | SMITH, MAURICE C | — |
| 18718438 | METHOD FOR LEAK SOURCE LOCATION INVESTIGATION | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18646904 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | CHIEM, DINH D | — |
| 18645426 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CHANGES IN FUGITIVE EMISSIONS | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| 18585088 | BOARD-TO-BOARD ARRAY CONNECTOR | NGUYEN, TRUC T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945586 | SMART CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME USING AN APPLICATION SPECIFIC ELECTRONICS PACKAGING MANUFACTURING PROCESS | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 19d |
| 18974836 | RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD AND DROP MULTIPLEXER SYSTEM WITH MONITORING OF MISSING WAVELENGTH CHANNELS | PAYNE, DAVID C | — |
| 18718438 | METHOD FOR LEAK SOURCE LOCATION INVESTIGATION | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18646904 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | CHIEM, DINH D | — |
| 18645426 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CHANGES IN FUGITIVE EMISSIONS | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 2831 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056949 | NON-INVASIVE REAL-TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MxN OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH WITH MEMS MIRROR ARRAY BASED SWITCH ENGINE | SMITH, MAURICE C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18974836 | RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD AND DROP MULTIPLEXER SYSTEM WITH MONITORING OF MISSING WAVELENGTH CHANNELS | PAYNE, DAVID C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18945586 | SMART CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME USING AN APPLICATION SPECIFIC ELECTRONICS PACKAGING MANUFACTURING PROCESS | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18903002 | INFORMATION TRANSFER FROM TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL UNITS TO COMPENSATORS WITH TIME-KEYING TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SWITCHING SIGNALS | NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18747510 | CONNECTOR | GUSHI, ROSS N | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18718438 | METHOD FOR LEAK SOURCE LOCATION INVESTIGATION | TRAN, TRAN M. | 2855 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18676526 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | PAUMEN, GARY F | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18646904 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18645426 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CHANGES IN FUGITIVE EMISSIONS | DINH, LYNDA | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18644166 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | JIMENEZ, OSCAR C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18616222 | CONNECTOR WITH SMT VERTICAL TAIL TERMINALS | HYEON, HAE M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18592575 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18585088 | BOARD-TO-BOARD ARRAY CONNECTOR | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18438525 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | LE, THANH TAM T | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18681067 | BUSBAR ASSEMBLY FOR ARRAYS OF BATTERY CELLS | VO, JIMMY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18036420 | DYNAMIC GAIN EQUALIZATION CONTROL METHOD FOR USE IN EDFA MODULES | ST CYR, DANIEL | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 17889572 | BATTERY CONNECTION MODULE AND BATTERY PACK | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
| 17794745 | REAL-TIME CABLE ASSEMBLY CONFIGURATOR WITH CUSTOM CONNECTORS | DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL | 2188 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17764979 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROTECTING A MULTI-LEVEL, MULTI-PORT CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
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