Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Power Integrations Inc. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 6 pending office actions. These matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical examinations. The 5 distinct art units indicate that the 6 pending office actions are being evaluated by several different specialized groups at the patent office.
Prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners. RETEBO, METASEBIA T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is fully decentralized across different individuals. This one-to-one ratio ensures that each matter is being reviewed by a different person. Practitioners can observe that the 6 pending office actions are widely distributed across 5 distinct art units and 6 distinct examiners, with Retebo handling only 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 1 | 89.5% | +5.3% |
| NGUYEN, TUNG X | 1 | 88.2% | +2.7% |
| GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 1 | 31.0% | +22.9% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
| FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | 1 | 76.4% | +16.8% |
| HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 1 | 86.8% | +1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957255 | FLUX DETECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREIN FOR SENSING MAGNETIC FLUX VIA A MAGNETIC FLUX PROBE | NGUYEN, TUNG X | — |
| 18048969 | Magnet with Multiple Discs | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290144 | ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING IN A BUCK CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 171d overdue |
| 18606753 | HOUSING AND HOUSING GRASPING FEATURES USABLE WITH A HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE | GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 29d overdue |
| 19048681 | INTERFACE CIRCUIT USING MIRRORED CURRENT FEEDBACK TO REDUCE INPUT IMPEDANCE | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290144 | ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING IN A BUCK CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 171d overdue |
| 18606753 | HOUSING AND HOUSING GRASPING FEATURES USABLE WITH A HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE | GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 29d overdue |
| 18376795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE OPERATION OF A MUTLI-OUTPUT POWER CONVERTER | FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048681 | INTERFACE CIRCUIT USING MIRRORED CURRENT FEEDBACK TO REDUCE INPUT IMPEDANCE | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2842 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18957255 | FLUX DETECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREIN FOR SENSING MAGNETIC FLUX VIA A MAGNETIC FLUX PROBE | NGUYEN, TUNG X | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18606753 | HOUSING AND HOUSING GRASPING FEATURES USABLE WITH A HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE | GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N | 2835 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18290144 | ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING IN A BUCK CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 171d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18376795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE OPERATION OF A MUTLI-OUTPUT POWER CONVERTER | FERNANDEZ, PEDRO C | 2844 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18048969 | Magnet with Multiple Discs | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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