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
Orc Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is currently processing 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, which shows a high degree of examiner variety relative to the 5 pending office actions. Every pending action is assigned to a different individual, requiring the company to manage 5 distinct examiners simultaneously.
The pending matters are situated within 2 distinct art units. This concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical review is confined to a limited number of supervisory groups. KIM, PETER B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 5 pending office actions are distributed among the various examiners.
For the legal team, this data implies a need for consistent messaging across 2 distinct art units while adapting to the specific preferences of 5 distinct examiners. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics focus is the primary driver of these interactions. Managing 5 pending office actions under such a distributed examiner model requires significant attention to individual examiner trends.
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 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, PETER B | 1 | 83.0% | +9.5% |
| KHARE, ATUL P | 1 | 54.8% | +72.4% |
| NGUYEN, HUNG | 1 | 90.7% | +9.0% |
| ASFAW, MESFIN T | 1 | 83.0% | +13.9% |
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.4% | +53.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088093 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECE | KHARE, ATUL P | — |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088093 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECE | KHARE, ATUL P | — |
| 19076201 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 18612140 | LASER PROCESSING UNIT AND IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 3 |
| 1742 | 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 |
| 19088093 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECE | KHARE, ATUL P | 1742 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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