Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nova Ltd. manages 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's prosecution is handled by a variety of personnel across multiple technical divisions, reflecting a diverse patent strategy in the semiconductor space.
Sunghee Y Gray is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for the pending actions indicates that no single examiner is managing more than 1 active matter for the company. This lack of concentration reduces the risk that a single difficult examiner could stall a large portion of the portfolio.
The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's innovations touch on several different aspects of semiconductors and optics. For the legal team, this means coordinating across different technical groups, each with its own set of supervisors and internal policies. Successfully navigating these active matters will require an organized approach to address the unique challenges posed by each art unit and examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 1 | 83.2% | +10.8% |
| SOHN, SEUNG C | 1 | 87.1% | +9.0% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
| SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 83.7% | +6.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879240 | EVALUATION OF ABNORMALITIES OF A SAMPLE | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566919 | METROLOGY TECHNIQUE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 22d |
| 18872867 | MOVING APPARATUS ALONG MULTIPLE AXES | SOHN, SEUNG C | — |
| 18260036 | EVALUATING X-RAY SIGNALS FROM A PERTURBED OBJECT | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566919 | METROLOGY TECHNIQUE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 22d |
| 18879240 | EVALUATION OF ABNORMALITIES OF A SAMPLE | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879240 | EVALUATION OF ABNORMALITIES OF A SAMPLE | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18872867 | MOVING APPARATUS ALONG MULTIPLE AXES | SOHN, SEUNG C | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18566919 | METROLOGY TECHNIQUE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18260036 | EVALUATING X-RAY SIGNALS FROM A PERTURBED OBJECT | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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