Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samtec Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 8 distinct examiners and 7 art units, indicating that nearly every action has its own examiner context while some technical assignment overlap remains.
AFZALI, SARANG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner appears repeatedly in the listed data, so counsel should prioritize docket-wide consistency in claim terminology and technical disclosures rather than relying on a concentrated examiner strategy. Art-unit review may help identify the limited areas of assignment overlap.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.5% | +44.8% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 1 | 85.9% | +6.4% |
| TRAN, HOANG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +32.7% |
| TRA, ANH QUAN | 1 | 73.0% | +5.4% |
| QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 1 | 73.3% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886066 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE VIAS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382242 | RACK-MOUNTABLE EQUIPMENT WITH A HIGH-HEAT-DISSIPATION MODULE, AND TRANSCEIVER RECEPTACLE WITH INCREASED COOLING | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 54d |
| 18992355 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINE WITH LATTICE STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| 18722873 | OPTICAL ENGINE FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION | TRAN, HOANG Q | — |
| 18676913 | ELECTRICAL CABLE WITH DIELECTRIC FOAM | TRA, ANH QUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382242 | RACK-MOUNTABLE EQUIPMENT WITH A HIGH-HEAT-DISSIPATION MODULE, AND TRANSCEIVER RECEPTACLE WITH INCREASED COOLING | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 54d |
| 19229267 | HIGH ASPECT RATIO VIAS FILLED WITH LIQUID METAL FILL | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 18992355 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINE WITH LATTICE STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| 18722873 | OPTICAL ENGINE FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION | TRAN, HOANG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 2 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229267 | HIGH ASPECT RATIO VIAS FILLED WITH LIQUID METAL FILL | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 18992355 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINE WITH LATTICE STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2847 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18886066 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE VIAS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18722873 | OPTICAL ENGINE FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION | TRAN, HOANG Q | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18676913 | ELECTRICAL CABLE WITH DIELECTRIC FOAM | TRA, ANH QUAN | 2843 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18382242 | RACK-MOUNTABLE EQUIPMENT WITH A HIGH-HEAT-DISSIPATION MODULE, AND TRANSCEIVER RECEPTACLE WITH INCREASED COOLING | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 2834 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSamtec Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Sarang Afzali has the most, with 1 of Samtec Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
