Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Renesas Electronics America Inc. manages a company patent portfolio with 11 pending office actions. These matters are situated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio is widely distributed across 8 distinct art units. This use of 8 art units for 11 actions suggests that the company's semiconductor technologies cover a broad range of technical classifications within the patent office.
There are 11 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution of these 11 pending office actions. KESSIE, DANIEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This ratio of 11 examiners to 11 pending actions indicates a highly decentralized prosecution effort. For practitioners, this means that each of the 11 matters will be reviewed independently by a different examiner. The diversity of 11 examiners across 8 art units for 11 actions shows that the company's intellectual property is subject to a wide range of examiner perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, DANIEL | 1 | 62.2% | +24.1% |
| BERHANE, ADOLF D | 1 | 88.4% | -1.8% |
| CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 1 | 60.1% | +35.2% |
| BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 1 | 74.8% | +11.3% |
| GONZALEZ, MILTON | 1 | 77.7% | +12.7% |
| SINGH, AMNEET | 1 | 79.2% | +8.3% |
| CHEN, JUNPENG | 1 | 73.5% | +14.4% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
| PELTON, NATHANIEL R | 1 | 74.5% | +19.0% |
| MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | 1 | 58.6% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049249 | MULTIPHASE POWER CONVERTER | BERHANE, ADOLF D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545222 | BIDIRECTIONAL THREE-LEVEL BUCK-BOOST VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH BATTERY CHARGING | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 4d overdue |
| 18990628 | FAULT DETECTION FOR HEADS-UP DISPLAY | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | — |
| 18980599 | FRACTIONAL DIVIDER CALIBRATION WITH DUAL DIGITAL CONTROL DELAY CIRCUITS | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | — |
| 18963873 | POSITION SENSOR SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, MILTON | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203377 | ADJUSTABLE DELAY TO CONTROL NODE MISMATCH | KESSIE, DANIEL | 5d overdue |
| 18545222 | BIDIRECTIONAL THREE-LEVEL BUCK-BOOST VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH BATTERY CHARGING | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 4d overdue |
| 18064316 | BATTERY STATUS DETECTION USING FORCED BATTERY MODE | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | 8d |
| 18990628 | FAULT DETECTION FOR HEADS-UP DISPLAY | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | — |
| 18980599 | FRACTIONAL DIVIDER CALIBRATION WITH DUAL DIGITAL CONTROL DELAY CIRCUITS | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | — |
| 18963873 | POSITION SENSOR SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, MILTON | — |
| 18423496 | CLOAKING AND POWER MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | CHEN, JUNPENG | — |
| 18496612 | PACKAGE FOR USE WITH INTEGARTED CIRCUIT | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 2633 | 1 |
| 2645 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19203377 | ADJUSTABLE DELAY TO CONTROL NODE MISMATCH | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19049249 | MULTIPHASE POWER CONVERTER | BERHANE, ADOLF D | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18990628 | FAULT DETECTION FOR HEADS-UP DISPLAY | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 2671 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18980599 | FRACTIONAL DIVIDER CALIBRATION WITH DUAL DIGITAL CONTROL DELAY CIRCUITS | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18963873 | POSITION SENSOR SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, MILTON | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18607409 | CLOCK FORWARDED MATCHED RECEIVER WITH DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER | SINGH, AMNEET | 2633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18423496 | CLOAKING AND POWER MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER | CHEN, JUNPENG | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18545222 | BIDIRECTIONAL THREE-LEVEL BUCK-BOOST VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH BATTERY CHARGING | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18496612 | PACKAGE FOR USE WITH INTEGARTED CIRCUIT | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18064316 | BATTERY STATUS DETECTION USING FORCED BATTERY MODE | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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