Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Our Next Energy Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each pending matter involves a unique technical focus within the semiconductor sector. The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being reviewed in several different specialized groups.
DINH, PHUONG K is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions in total, the portfolio is evenly spread across its 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that no single examiner or art unit is handling a plurality of the company's active patent applications. For a practitioner, this means that each of the 3 pending office actions will likely follow a separate and independent prosecution trajectory.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, PHUONG K | 1 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
| LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 1 | 70.4% | +26.0% |
| ZHOU, ZIXUAN | 1 | 76.5% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085153 | SINGLE CORE CROSS-COUPLED MULTI-PHASE INDUCTOR | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 39d |
| 18737045 | DIRECT CONNECTION OF CONTACTORS AND SHUNT TO PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | DINH, PHUONG K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085153 | SINGLE CORE CROSS-COUPLED MULTI-PHASE INDUCTOR | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 39d |
| 18083061 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR POWERING A HOME | ZHOU, ZIXUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737045 | DIRECT CONNECTION OF CONTACTORS AND SHUNT TO PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | DINH, PHUONG K | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18085153 | SINGLE CORE CROSS-COUPLED MULTI-PHASE INDUCTOR | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 2837 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18083061 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR POWERING A HOME | ZHOU, ZIXUAN | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOur Next Energy Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Phuong K Dinh has the most, with 1 of Our Next Energy Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
