Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
RichWave Technology Corp. maintains a portfolio with 9 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is highly decentralized, as there are 9 distinct examiners assigned to these 9 actions. This distribution implies that the company must navigate 9 different examiner styles simultaneously, as no examiner is handling multiple cases for this entity. This variety in personnel requires a flexible strategy to address the specific preferences of each examiner.
The 9 pending actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating that the company's semiconductor and circuit innovations touch upon several different specialized groups within the USPTO. CHEN, ZHITONG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This broad spread across 6 art units suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter. Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration in any individual art unit or under any examiner prevents the development of a uniform prosecution trend for the current pending matters.
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 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, ZHITONG | 1 | 76.3% | +20.3% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.9% | +18.2% |
| RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 1 | 93.3% | +8.6% |
| LEE, BENNY T | 1 | 87.4% | +25.4% |
| SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 1 | 95.0% | +6.1% |
| HO, ANH N | 1 | 80.7% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393725 | RADIO FREQUENCY CIRCUIT PROVIDING TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
| 18197736 | RADAR SIGNAL DEVICE WHERE A PROJECTION OF A FEED STRUCTURE AT LEAST PARTIALLY OVERLAPS WITH AN OPENING ON A METAL LAYER | HO, ANH N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988909 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18396708 | TRANSCEIVING METHOD OF SIGNALS AND RADAR APPARATUS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | — |
| 18393739 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18533175 | FRONT-END CIRCUIT AND SEMI-CONDUCTOR DEVICE | LEE, BENNY T | — |
| 18519084 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH ENHANCED QUALITY FACTOR | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000739 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING DEVICE | CHEN, ZHITONG | — |
| 18988909 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18396708 | TRANSCEIVING METHOD OF SIGNALS AND RADAR APPARATUS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | — |
| 18393739 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18533175 | FRONT-END CIRCUIT AND SEMI-CONDUCTOR DEVICE | LEE, BENNY T | — |
| 18197736 | RADAR SIGNAL DEVICE WHERE A PROJECTION OF A FEED STRUCTURE AT LEAST PARTIALLY OVERLAPS WITH AN OPENING ON A METAL LAYER | HO, ANH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2649 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000739 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING DEVICE | CHEN, ZHITONG | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18988909 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT | COMBER, KEVIN J | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18396708 | TRANSCEIVING METHOD OF SIGNALS AND RADAR APPARATUS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18393739 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18393725 | RADIO FREQUENCY CIRCUIT PROVIDING TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2843 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18533175 | FRONT-END CIRCUIT AND SEMI-CONDUCTOR DEVICE | LEE, BENNY T | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18519084 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH ENHANCED QUALITY FACTOR | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18197736 | RADAR SIGNAL DEVICE WHERE A PROJECTION OF A FEED STRUCTURE AT LEAST PARTIALLY OVERLAPS WITH AN OPENING ON A METAL LAYER | HO, ANH N | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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