Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Powertech Technology Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed across 4 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that the portfolio is being handled across multiple examination channels rather than through a single concentrated assignment.
VU, DAVID is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should review those matters together for recurring claim, amendment, or prior-art issues, while separately tracking the matters assigned to the other examiners and art units.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, DAVID | 2 | 77.3% | +18.0% |
| ARROYO, TERESA M | 1 | 72.0% | +23.2% |
| NGUYEN, DAO H | 1 | 91.4% | +5.7% |
| KOLB, THADDEUS J | 1 | 85.7% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17821168 | FAN-OUT PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455609 | IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | VU, DAVID | 4d overdue |
| 18632221 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ARROYO, TERESA M | — |
| 18350459 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, DAO H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455609 | IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | VU, DAVID | 4d overdue |
| 17821168 | FAN-OUT PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 8d |
| 18632221 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ARROYO, TERESA M | — |
| 18427834 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | VU, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 3 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18632221 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ARROYO, TERESA M | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18427834 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | VU, DAVID | 2818 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18455609 | IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | VU, DAVID | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18350459 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, DAO H | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 17821168 | FAN-OUT PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Aug 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPowertech Technology Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
David Vu has the most, with 2 of Powertech Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
