Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Paragraf Limited has 7 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those matters are distributed among 6 examiners and 4 art units, creating a prosecution profile that spans several examination groups rather than a single recurring assignment.
CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N is the busiest listed examiner, with 2 pending matters. The remaining actions are therefore handled across other examiners, which makes portfolio-level docket control important alongside application-specific response work. The art-unit spread also indicates that related semiconductor and circuit issues may be evaluated under different examination practices.
Counsel can use the examiner distribution to identify where arguments or amendments may need to be tailored. The concentration with the busiest examiner is limited relative to the full pending set, so a uniform response strategy may not address every matter equally. Tracking deadlines by examiner and art unit should help preserve consistency without assuming identical prosecution treatment.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
| LEE, DA WEI | 1 | 82.0% | +14.6% |
| RUMP, RICHARD M | 1 | 74.4% | +20.3% |
| CHEN, JACK S J | 1 | 76.6% | +5.9% |
| CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 1 | 78.5% | +0.4% |
| YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 1 | 85.4% | -8.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268567 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE PRECURSOR | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18837634 | A TRANSISTOR AND A METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A TRANSISTOR | LEE, DA WEI | — |
| 18556269 | A PHOTODETECTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858092 | A GRAPHENE-CONTAINING LAMINATE | EMPIE, NATHAN H | — |
| 18837634 | A TRANSISTOR AND A METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A TRANSISTOR | LEE, DA WEI | — |
| 18687410 | METHODS FOR THE GROWTH OF A GRAPHENE LAYER STRUCTURE ON A SUBSTRATE AND AN OPTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICE | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 2 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858092 | A GRAPHENE-CONTAINING LAMINATE | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18837634 | A TRANSISTOR AND A METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A TRANSISTOR | LEE, DA WEI | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18687410 | METHODS FOR THE GROWTH OF A GRAPHENE LAYER STRUCTURE ON A SUBSTRATE AND AN OPTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICE | RUMP, RICHARD M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18577827 | A GRAPHENE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | CHEN, JACK S J | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18556269 | A PHOTODETECTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 2813 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18268567 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE PRECURSOR | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialParagraf Limited has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Nathan H Empie has the most, with 1 of Paragraf Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
