Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phison Electronics Corp. currently faces 6 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is under the review of a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests a highly diversified prosecution environment where no single examiner's historical trends dominate the portfolio's current outlook.
The portfolio's complexity is further reflected by its presence in 6 distinct art units. With the pending office actions spread across these 6 units, the company must manage unique sets of administrative guidelines and technical perspectives. The busiest examiner, YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners, every examiner is managing 1 action, indicating a broad and fragmented examination profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 1 | 87.2% | +24.4% |
| CHEN, XIAOCHUN L | 1 | 91.9% | -0.5% |
| SADLER, NATHAN | 1 | 70.8% | +26.0% |
| PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 71.4% | -3.4% |
| ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 1 | 91.5% | +10.2% |
| OBERLY, ERIC T | 1 | 74.1% | +14.7% |
| BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 74.6% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415686 | GOLD FINGER CONNECTOR AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800114 | WEAR LEVELING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | CHEN, XIAOCHUN L | 63d |
| 19177655 | DECODE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450411 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | OBERLY, ERIC T | 23d overdue |
| 18415686 | GOLD FINGER CONNECTOR AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 27d |
| 18677920 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | SADLER, NATHAN | 70d |
| 19177655 | DECODE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2111 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19177655 | DECODE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 2111 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18800114 | WEAR LEVELING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | CHEN, XIAOCHUN L | 2824 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Aug 11, 2024 |
| 18677920 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §102 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18673259 | COMMAND RESPONDING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT BY INCLUDING DATA NOT RELATED TO EXECUTION RESULT OF OPERATION COMMAND | PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 2132 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18415686 | GOLD FINGER CONNECTOR AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18450411 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | OBERLY, ERIC T | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18363758 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 2138 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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