Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ovh currently has 8 pending office actions focused in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, showing that most applications are being reviewed by different individuals. Despite the variety of examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within only 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter is relatively consistent even as it is reviewed by multiple people. This concentration in the art units means the company is dealing with a narrow range of technical classifications.
PAPE, ZACHARY is the busiest examiner for Ovh, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a larger portion of the workload compared to the other 7 distinct examiners who manage the remaining actions. The concentration of 8 pending actions within just the distinct art units indicates that while the company interacts with different examiners, the prosecution environment is administratively narrow within the patent office. Practitioners can focus on the specific trends within these art units while managing the individual preferences of the examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 6 (67%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAPE, ZACHARY | 3 | 72.4% | +19.4% |
| PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | 1 | 93.7% | -6.6% |
| WORKU, KIDEST | 1 | 84.9% | +2.8% |
| DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | 1 | 41.6% | +39.0% |
| SMITH, COURTNEY L | 1 | 85.5% | +12.0% |
| NGO, STEVEN | 1 | 69.3% | +28.2% |
| SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 1 | 57.3% | +22.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373548 | HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 27d |
| 18781669 | DATACENTER LIQUID COOLING ARRANGEMENTS WITH POWER ESTIMATION AND RELATED FAN AND PUMP CONTROL | WORKU, KIDEST | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE | PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373567 | IMMERSION COOLING CONTAINER | PAPE, ZACHARY | 15d overdue |
| 18588720 | BAFFLING ASSEMBLY FOR MITIGATING MOVEMENT OF A HEAT-TRANSFER LIQUID IN AN IMMERSION CASE | PAPE, ZACHARY | 15d |
| 18233922 | DETECTION AND DEFLECTION OF FLUID LEAKAGES IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 19d |
| 18373548 | HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 27d |
| 18236559 | COOLING BLOCK FOR COOLING A HEAT-GENERATING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | NGO, STEVEN | 28d |
| 18588745 | HYBRID COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS AND IMMERSION COOLED RACKS | DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | 70d |
| 18885416 | DATA CENTER RACK SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LIQUID AND DIELECTRIC IMMERSION COOLING | PAPE, ZACHARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 6 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19189473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE | PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | — | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 18885416 | DATA CENTER RACK SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LIQUID AND DIELECTRIC IMMERSION COOLING | PAPE, ZACHARY | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18781669 | DATACENTER LIQUID COOLING ARRANGEMENTS WITH POWER ESTIMATION AND RELATED FAN AND PUMP CONTROL | WORKU, KIDEST | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18588745 | HYBRID COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS AND IMMERSION COOLED RACKS | DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18588720 | BAFFLING ASSEMBLY FOR MITIGATING MOVEMENT OF A HEAT-TRANSFER LIQUID IN AN IMMERSION CASE | PAPE, ZACHARY | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18373548 | HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2835 | §112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18373567 | IMMERSION COOLING CONTAINER | PAPE, ZACHARY | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18236559 | COOLING BLOCK FOR COOLING A HEAT-GENERATING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | NGO, STEVEN | 2835 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18233922 | DETECTION AND DEFLECTION OF FLUID LEAKAGES IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
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