Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Point Engineering Co., Ltd. has 11 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, so the portfolio is distributed across multiple examination groups rather than concentrated with one reviewer. This structure calls for matter-specific tracking of claim issues, cited art, and response timing.
YENINAS, STEVEN LEE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the busiest examiner accounts for only one matter, no single examiner appears to provide a dominant prosecution pattern. The six-art-unit spread also suggests that counsel should avoid relying on one uniform response strategy across the portfolio. Examiner and art-unit information can instead support targeted preparation for each application, while portfolio-level review can identify recurring semiconductor or circuit issues without assuming that they arise from the same examination practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 8 (73%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | 1 | 73.7% | +5.3% |
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.0% | +11.3% |
| HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 1 | 87.0% | +12.1% |
| REISNER, NOAM S | 1 | 73.9% | -8.5% |
| NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | 1 | 91.0% | +6.2% |
| PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 1 | 86.4% | +8.6% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.7% | +24.3% |
| JONES, ERIC W | 1 | 62.2% | +17.3% |
| KHANAL, ARTI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839870 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18997184 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
| 18845428 | ANODIZED FILM STRUCTURE AND INSPECTION DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | — |
| 18274455 | ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN MODULE | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | — |
| 18285852 | MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL INCLUDING SAME | KHANAL, ARTI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19092096 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND TEST DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | — |
| 18704378 | SUSCEPTOR | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567363 | MICRO BUMP, INTERPOSER FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTION HAVING SAME, SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, MULTI-LAYER STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND DISPLAY | JONES, ERIC W | 5d overdue |
| 18712704 | ANODIC OXIDATION FILM STRUCTURE | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 19d |
| 18839870 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18997184 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
| 18704378 | SUSCEPTOR | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 6 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092096 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND TEST DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18839870 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18997184 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18863989 | ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN AND INSPECTION DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | REISNER, NOAM S | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18845428 | ANODIZED FILM STRUCTURE AND INSPECTION DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18274455 | ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PIN MODULE | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18712704 | ANODIC OXIDATION FILM STRUCTURE | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18704378 | SUSCEPTOR | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18567363 | MICRO BUMP, INTERPOSER FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTION HAVING SAME, SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, MULTI-LAYER STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND DISPLAY | JONES, ERIC W | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18285852 | MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL INCLUDING SAME | KHANAL, ARTI | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18278173 | COMPOSITE MOLD, METAL MOLDED ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPoint Engineering Co., Ltd. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 11 examiners.
Steven Lee Yeninas has the most, with 1 of Point Engineering Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
