Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Niko Semiconductor Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. OJEH, NDUKA E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data indicates a shared technical unit with separate examiner assignments.
This arrangement permits a common technical and claim vocabulary while requiring examiner-specific responses. Counsel should compare how each office action addresses circuit, semiconductor, or optical limitations, then tailor amendments to the stated grounds rather than relying on a portfolio-wide formulation. The common art unit may make consistent prior-art analysis useful. Because the pending matters are divided between examiners, interview planning and argument selection should remain tied to the individual prosecution record.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OJEH, NDUKA E | 1 | 89.9% | -2.3% |
| BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 1 | 42.3% | +37.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774429 | HYBRID TYPE AlGaN/GaN HEMT DEVICE | OJEH, NDUKA E | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18069229 | POWER MODULE PACKAGE | BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774429 | HYBRID TYPE AlGaN/GaN HEMT DEVICE | OJEH, NDUKA E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18069229 | POWER MODULE PACKAGE | BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNiko Semiconductor Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Nduka E Ojeh has the most, with 1 of Niko Semiconductor Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
