Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (88%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 2 | 80.0% | +32.0% |
| MENZ, DOUGLAS M | 1 | 88.3% | +4.6% |
| GARCES, NELSON Y | 1 | 80.2% | +2.7% |
| BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 1 | 86.7% | +25.0% |
| NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 1 | 66.7% | +48.6% |
| PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D | 1 | 65.8% | +14.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038066 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | GARCES, NELSON Y | 52d overdue |
| 18038106 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 13d |
| 18093497 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 23d |
| 18368113 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOMASK LAYOUT | MENZ, DOUGLAS M | 33d |
| 18140030 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 48d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17574904 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 74d overdue |
| 17315740 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF | PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D | 42d overdue |
| 18038106 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 13d |
| 18093497 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 23d |
| 18140030 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 3 |
| 2814 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18368113 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOMASK LAYOUT | MENZ, DOUGLAS M | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18038066 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | GARCES, NELSON Y | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18038106 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18140030 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18096091 | PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD | BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18093497 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 2899 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17574904 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF | NIELSEN, DEREK LANG | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
| 17315740 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF | PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2021 |
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