Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samtec Inc. is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company has 8 pending office actions. These matters are spread across 7 distinct examiners, which implies that at least some examiners are reviewing multiple applications. This distribution requires the company to manage various examiner styles within its semiconductor portfolio.
The portfolio is being examined in 4 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations fall into several different technical classifications. Practitioners must account for the different examination standards across these 4 units. The variety of art units indicates a diverse range of technical subject matter within the circuits and optics fields.
TRA, ANH QUAN is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is managing 2 pending office actions. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 2, this individual holds a larger portion of the total pending actions than other examiners. Practitioners should monitor the specific preferences of this examiner to ensure consistent results across the matters they handle.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRA, ANH QUAN | 2 | 72.9% | +5.3% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
| SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 1 | 95.0% | +6.1% |
| MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 1 | 85.9% | +6.3% |
| BELLO, AGUSTIN | 1 | 75.4% | +12.0% |
| TRAN, HOANG Q | 1 | 67.7% | +32.7% |
| QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 1 | 73.2% | +20.2% |
| SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN | 1 | 51.7% | +48.7% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552463 | INTERCONNECT ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN | 35d overdue |
| 18992532 | CABLE APPARATUS AND METHOD | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | — |
| 18804721 | TRANSCEIVER AND INTERFACE FOR IC PACKAGE | BELLO, AGUSTIN | — |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552463 | INTERCONNECT ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN | 35d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18804721 | TRANSCEIVER AND INTERFACE FOR IC PACKAGE | BELLO, AGUSTIN | — |
| 18722873 | OPTICAL ENGINE FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION | TRAN, HOANG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2843 | 3 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2899 | 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 |
| 18992532 | CABLE APPARATUS AND METHOD | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 2843 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18851897 | FLEXIBLE CABLES AND WAVEGUIDES | TRA, ANH QUAN | 2843 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18886066 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE VIAS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18804721 | TRANSCEIVER AND INTERFACE FOR IC PACKAGE | BELLO, AGUSTIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18722873 | OPTICAL ENGINE FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION | TRAN, HOANG Q | — | §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 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18552463 | INTERCONNECT ALIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN | 2899 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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