Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orc Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating examiner distribution across a narrower set of technical groupings.
KIM, PETER B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that single matter, so prosecution planning should address the matters separately while preserving consistency across the art units.
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 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, PETER B | 1 | 83.1% | +9.4% |
| NGUYEN, HUNG | 1 | 90.7% | +9.0% |
| ASFAW, MESFIN T | 1 | 83.1% | +13.9% |
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.3% | +51.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089355 | PATTERN FORMING UNIT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNMENT | KIM, PETER B | — |
| 19076201 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19086633 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MASKS | NGUYEN, HUNG | — |
| 18612140 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076201 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 18612140 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 3 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089355 | PATTERN FORMING UNIT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNMENT | KIM, PETER B | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19086633 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MASKS | NGUYEN, HUNG | 2882 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19076201 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT | ASFAW, MESFIN T | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18612140 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOrc Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Peter B Kim has the most, with 1 of Orc Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
