Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pc Krause And Associates Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Both actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a consistent technical classification for the current portfolio. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, so each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This structure requires the company to address 2 unique examination styles within a single technical group.
Steven Ngo is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under his review. Having 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions within the same art unit means that the company must manage different examiner preferences even when dealing with the same technical group. This distribution ensures that no single examiner controls the entirety of the company's active workload. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their arguments to the specific styles of the 2 distinct examiners involved, despite the shared art unit. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions suggests that the company's prosecution outcomes will depend on the individual discretion of each examiner. A focused strategy within the 1 distinct art unit is necessary to advance these cases effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGO, STEVEN | 1 | 69.3% | +28.2% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.5% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368902 | POWER MODULE THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 8d |
| 18827549 | DIRECT POWER MODULE COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368902 | POWER MODULE THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 8d |
| 18827549 | DIRECT POWER MODULE COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827549 | DIRECT POWER MODULE COOLING | NGO, STEVEN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18368902 | POWER MODULE THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2835 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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