Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Monolithic Power Systems Inc. has 10 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently processing a single action. The portfolio's activity spans 4 distinct art units, indicating a variety of technical sub-specialties within the semiconductor field. This distribution shows that the company's 10 pending office actions are being reviewed by a diverse group of individuals rather than being concentrated under a few examiners.
NASH, GARY A is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since 10 distinct examiners are handling the workload, no examiner is managing more than 1 action. This spread across 4 distinct art units requires the company to manage interactions with many different individuals across a few specialized technical groups. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategy must be individualized for each of the pending office actions. The presence of several art units suggests that while the technology area is Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, the specific inventions are diverse enough to be classified into multiple administrative groups.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASH, GARY A | 1 | 88.9% | +4.7% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
| MOODY, KYLE J | 1 | 90.4% | +7.9% |
| LAXTON, GARY L | 1 | 86.5% | +5.8% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 1 | 83.6% | +7.5% |
| PRIFTI, AUREL | 1 | 83.0% | +22.1% |
| PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 1 | 88.7% | +3.1% |
| INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 1 | 85.6% | +8.2% |
| THOMAS, LUCY M | 1 | 62.4% | +17.9% |
| LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 1 | 70.4% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036795 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH MINIPHASE AND HETEROGENEOUS PHASE CONFIGURATION AND METHOD THEREOF | NASH, GARY A | — |
| 18934868 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH DUAL-OUTPUT AND METHOD THEREOF | MOODY, KYLE J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618365 | GATE DRIVING UNIT | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 42d overdue |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18926222 | STATUS REPORT OF POWER STAGE CIRCUIT FOR MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | LAXTON, GARY L | — |
| 18806689 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | TRAN, NGUYEN | — |
| 18738372 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH FAULT REPORTING STRUCTURE | PRIFTI, AUREL | — |
| 18408958 | POWER MODULE WITH METALLIC HEAT SPREADER | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18738372 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH FAULT REPORTING STRUCTURE | PRIFTI, AUREL | — |
| 18520963 | SMART POWER SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH DEVICE WITH SELF-DIAGNOSTIC FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| 18366564 | POWER MODULE FOR TRANS-INDUCTOR VOLTAGE REGULATOR | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 4 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036795 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH MINIPHASE AND HETEROGENEOUS PHASE CONFIGURATION AND METHOD THEREOF | NASH, GARY A | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18934868 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH DUAL-OUTPUT AND METHOD THEREOF | MOODY, KYLE J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18926222 | STATUS REPORT OF POWER STAGE CIRCUIT FOR MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | LAXTON, GARY L | 2838 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18806689 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | TRAN, NGUYEN | 2838 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18738372 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH FAULT REPORTING STRUCTURE | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2175 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18618365 | GATE DRIVING UNIT | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2849 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18408958 | POWER MODULE WITH METALLIC HEAT SPREADER | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18520963 | SMART POWER SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH DEVICE WITH SELF-DIAGNOSTIC FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18366564 | POWER MODULE FOR TRANS-INDUCTOR VOLTAGE REGULATOR | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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