Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has 11 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 11 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, indicating a broad examination footprint across the portfolio. No single examiner accounts for a dominant share of the identified work.
RAHMAN, KHATIB A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution suggests that prosecution management should emphasize portfolio-level tracking, consistent technical definitions, and separate analysis of each art-unit context. Counsel may benefit from identifying recurring prior-art or written-description issues, while avoiding an assumption that the treatment in one matter will predict treatment elsewhere.
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 (18%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 1 | 91.2% | +4.9% |
| PRICE, LYTESHIA M | 1 | — | — |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 1 | 87.9% | +20.6% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +5.7% |
| MARUF, SHEIKH | 1 | 86.8% | +9.1% |
| PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 1 | 83.7% | +8.8% |
| CRITE, ANTONIO B | 1 | 81.6% | -13.0% |
| ARROYO, TERESA M | 1 | 72.0% | +23.2% |
| GEYER, SCOTT B | 1 | 94.2% | +4.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796200 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | — |
| 18621025 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | MARUF, SHEIKH | — |
| 18525626 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | GEYER, SCOTT B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749554 | DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY STRUCTURE | PRICE, LYTESHIA M | — |
| 18666809 | SONOS MEMORY ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — |
| 18655344 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — |
| 18639973 | MEMORY DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | — |
| 18590951 | PACKAGE ARCHITECTURE WITH INTERPOSER | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | — |
| 18406220 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CRITE, ANTONIO B | — |
| 18536230 | MEMORY DEVICE | ARROYO, TERESA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655344 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — |
| 18536230 | MEMORY DEVICE | ARROYO, TERESA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18796200 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 2818 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18749554 | DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY STRUCTURE | PRICE, LYTESHIA M | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18666809 | SONOS MEMORY ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 2899 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18655344 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 2892 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18639973 | MEMORY DEVICE | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18621025 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | MARUF, SHEIKH | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18590951 | PACKAGE ARCHITECTURE WITH INTERPOSER | PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18406220 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CRITE, ANTONIO B | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18536230 | MEMORY DEVICE | ARROYO, TERESA M | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18525626 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | GEYER, SCOTT B | 2812 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18523924 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | KUPP, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPowerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 11 examiners.
Khatib A Rahman has the most, with 1 of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
