Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days
Richtek Technology Corporation currently has 15 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 14 distinct examiners, which indicates that almost every pending application is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the semiconductor and optics sectors. This distribution across 6 distinct art units requires the company to manage several different administrative groups at the USPTO.
Jue Zhang is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions under review. This is the only instance of examiner overlap, as the other actions are assigned to different individuals. The use of 6 distinct art units suggests that the 15 pending office actions involve diverse technologies that fall under different supervisory groups. This high number of 14 distinct examiners relative to 15 actions means the company must navigate many different individual examination styles simultaneously. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 3 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, JUE | 2 | 83.3% | +10.0% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 1 | 83.6% | +7.5% |
| NGUYEN, LONG T | 1 | 89.4% | +8.3% |
| BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 1 | 76.2% | +13.5% |
| RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 1 | 93.3% | +8.6% |
| MATTABONI, TIMOTHY JAMES | 1 | — | — |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 1 | 72.8% | +20.5% |
| AHMADI, MOHSEN | 1 | 86.8% | +9.7% |
| COMAS TORRES, YAHVEH | 1 | 87.5% | -6.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978254 | SWITCHING CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF EFFECTIVELY REDUCING ON-RESISTANCE | NGUYEN, LONG T | — |
| 18419739 | BAIS VOLTAGE GENERATOR, POWER CONVERTER, AND BAIS VOLTAGE GENERATING METHOD | COMAS TORRES, YAHVEH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748466 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR CONTROLLER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 2d overdue |
| 19186105 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 19058288 | ASYMMETRICAL HALF-BRIDGE FLYBACK POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT THAT CAN DIRECTLY OBTAIN OUTPUT POWER INFORMATION WITHOUT ISOLATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | TRAN, NGUYEN | — |
| 19049277 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH LOW CURRENT LOSS | ZHANG, JUE | — |
| 18827610 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | ZHANG, JUE | — |
| 18673588 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND CURRENT BUFFER THEREOF | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
| 18585414 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE | AHMADI, MOHSEN | — |
| 18492879 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND AUXILIARY CURRENT CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748466 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR CONTROLLER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 2d overdue |
| 19186105 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 19049277 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH LOW CURRENT LOSS | ZHANG, JUE | — |
| 18827610 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | ZHANG, JUE | — |
| 18666604 | COMBINATION STRUCTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEEP TRENCH DEVICES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186105 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19058288 | ASYMMETRICAL HALF-BRIDGE FLYBACK POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT THAT CAN DIRECTLY OBTAIN OUTPUT POWER INFORMATION WITHOUT ISOLATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | TRAN, NGUYEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19049277 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH LOW CURRENT LOSS | ZHANG, JUE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18978254 | SWITCHING CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF EFFECTIVELY REDUCING ON-RESISTANCE | NGUYEN, LONG T | 2836 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18827610 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | ZHANG, JUE | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18748466 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR CONTROLLER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | BORROMEO, JUANITO C | 2184 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18673588 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND CURRENT BUFFER THEREOF | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18666904 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED STRUCTURE HAVING HIGH/LOW VOLTAGE DEVICES AND CAPACITOR | MATTABONI, TIMOTHY JAMES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18666604 | COMBINATION STRUCTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEEP TRENCH DEVICES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18585414 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18419739 | BAIS VOLTAGE GENERATOR, POWER CONVERTER, AND BAIS VOLTAGE GENERATING METHOD | COMAS TORRES, YAHVEH | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18520789 | LEAD FRAME AND PACKAGE METHOD | MANDALA, MICHELLE | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18492879 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND AUXILIARY CURRENT CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18468713 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTER CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF DETECTING MISALIGNMENT AND CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF | HENZE, DAVID V | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2023 |
| 18328786 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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