Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quanzhou Sanan Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. maintains 12 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio shows a high degree of examiner diversity, with 12 distinct examiners currently reviewing these filings. This distribution means that each pending action is being handled by a different individual, as evidenced by the busiest examiner, Da Wei Lee.
The workload is spread across 5 distinct art units, which suggests the company's semiconductor innovations span several specialized technical classifications. The ratio of pending office actions to the 5 distinct art units indicates that while the technology is concentrated in specific areas, the examination process is decentralized. This lack of examiner overlap prevents the development of a singular prosecution strategy based on the tendencies of a primary official.
For practitioners, the distinct examiners represent unique sets of prior art interpretations and procedural preferences. Managing the 12 pending office actions under these conditions requires a flexible approach to advocacy. Since the busiest examiner pending count is just 1, no individual examiner's decisions will disproportionately impact the overall portfolio health in the immediate term.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DA WEI | 1 | 80.4% | +15.4% |
| MATTABONI, TIMOTHY JAMES | 1 | — | — |
| CUTLER, ETHAN EDWARD | 1 | 91.8% | +11.9% |
| NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 1 | 70.3% | +39.6% |
| SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN | 1 | 67.3% | +27.4% |
| RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE | 1 | 82.4% | +1.5% |
| DINKE, BITEW A | 1 | 72.9% | +12.4% |
| TORNOW, MARK W | 1 | 77.4% | +13.0% |
| ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 1 | 57.9% | +47.1% |
| MEHTA, RATISHA | 1 | 89.6% | +5.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18186817 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | MEHTA, RATISHA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347670 | LED PACKAGING DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 14d |
| 18511716 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS | RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE | 15d |
| 17990567 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PETERSON, ERIK T | 16d |
| 18809392 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | LEE, DA WEI | — |
| 18716941 | MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY | CUTLER, ETHAN EDWARD | — |
| 18667346 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | — |
| 18509159 | VERTICAL-TYPE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | DINKE, BITEW A | — |
| 18353100 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | TORNOW, MARK W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18513570 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CHIP AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN | 8d overdue |
| 18347670 | LED PACKAGING DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 14d |
| 18809392 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | LEE, DA WEI | — |
| 18716941 | MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY | CUTLER, ETHAN EDWARD | — |
| 18667346 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | — |
| 18509159 | VERTICAL-TYPE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | DINKE, BITEW A | — |
| 18353100 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | TORNOW, MARK W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809392 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | LEE, DA WEI | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18780857 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | MATTABONI, TIMOTHY JAMES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18716941 | MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, MICRO LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY | CUTLER, ETHAN EDWARD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18667346 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18513570 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CHIP AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2023 |
| 18511716 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS | RAMOS-DIAZ, FERNANDO JOSE | 2814 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18509159 | VERTICAL-TYPE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | DINKE, BITEW A | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18353100 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | TORNOW, MARK W | 2891 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2023 |
| 18347670 | LED PACKAGING DEVICE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 2817 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18186817 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | MEHTA, RATISHA | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 17990567 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17818381 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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