Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Olum Material Corporation has 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is reviewed by a different person. The active prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a specialized technical focus for the company's current filings.
PATEL, PARESH H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the administrative workload is spread across the patent office. The involvement of 2 distinct art units means the legal team must navigate the specific guidelines of 2 different examination groups. This structure for the 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector ensures that the company's patenting progress is not tied to the results of a single examiner, as each of the 5 distinct examiners handles only one case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
| RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | 1 | 88.7% | +7.6% |
| HE, AMY | 1 | 81.3% | +4.3% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135937 | MASK-SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, KEATH T | 24d overdue |
| 18898675 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HE, AMY | 55d |
| 18981416 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | PATEL, PARESH H | — |
| 18981395 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18969099 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135937 | MASK-SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, KEATH T | 24d overdue |
| 18981395 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981416 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | PATEL, PARESH H | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18981395 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18969099 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18898675 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HE, AMY | 2858 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18135937 | MASK-SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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