Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation is currently managing 10 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's semiconductor innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized groups at the USPTO. This spread across 4 art units requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varying examination cultures of each unit.
The workload is handled by 10 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending office action is assigned to a different individual. This high number of examiners relative to the 10 pending actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration, which prevents any single examiner's habits from dominating the portfolio's overall progress. Practitioners must navigate 10 different sets of examiner preferences to resolve these active matters.
KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This confirms that the 10 pending office actions are distributed among the 10 distinct examiners. Such a wide distribution ensures that the company's patent prosecution is not bottlenecked by the workload of a single examiner, though it necessitates managing multiple relationships within the USPTO.
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 | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C | 1 | 87.4% | +2.6% |
| RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 1 | 91.1% | +5.0% |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| CHANG, JAY C | 1 | 85.3% | +13.9% |
| MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 1 | 87.9% | +20.6% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +6.0% |
| MARUF, SHEIKH | 1 | 86.8% | +9.2% |
| PAGE, STEVEN MITCHELL CHR | 1 | 83.6% | +8.7% |
| CRITE, ANTONIO B | 1 | 81.6% | -13.4% |
| ARROYO, TERESA M | 1 | 71.9% | +23.2% |
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 | — |
| 18663120 | FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | CHANG, JAY C | — |
| 18621025 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | MARUF, SHEIKH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055516 | DEFECT DETECTION METHOD FOR MEMORY DEVICE | KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C | — |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663120 | FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | CHANG, JAY C | — |
| 18655344 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — |
| 18536230 | MEMORY DEVICE | ARROYO, TERESA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055516 | DEFECT DETECTION METHOD FOR MEMORY DEVICE | KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C | 2111 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18796200 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18666809 | SONOS MEMORY ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18663120 | FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR STRUCTURE | CHANG, JAY C | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18655344 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | — | §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 | — | §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 |
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