Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

16 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (75%)
2
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (62%)
§102 only2 (12%)
§112 only2 (12%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
14
Semiconductors
88% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ANYA, IGWE U 1 84.9% -5.1%
GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 1 72.4% +20.9%
GARBER, ERIN R 1 82.0% +17.4%
GARCES, NELSON Y 1 80.2% +2.7%
TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE 1 78.7% +33.2%
BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE 1 50.0% +46.7%
ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 1 80.0% +25.0%
PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D 1 66.1% +14.5%
MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 1 94.8% +3.9%
DINKE, BITEW A 1 72.8% +11.9%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18038066 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF GARCES, NELSON Y 52d overdue
18579817 PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARBER, ERIN R
17986104 OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM, MASK, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED
18515513 PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17315740 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D 42d overdue
18096091 PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE 30d overdue
18140030 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME TRICE III, WILLIAM CLARENCE 48d
18498359 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME DINKE, BITEW A 50d
18686422 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME GONDARENKO, NATALIA A
18579817 PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARBER, ERIN R
17986104 OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM, MASK, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2814 2
2893 2
2818 2
2891 1
2878 1
2899 1
2851 1
2812 1
2622 1
2892 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18652377 CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME ANYA, IGWE U Non-Final OA Pending May 01, 2024
18686422 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 2891 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 25, 2024
18579817 PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE GARBER, ERIN R 2878 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18038066 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF GARCES, NELSON Y 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue 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 §112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
17986104 OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM, MASK, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 2851 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 14, 2022
17315740 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF PIZARRO CRESPO, MARCOS D 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending May 10, 2021
18515513 PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 2818 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18498359 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME DINKE, BITEW A 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Oct 31, 2023
18378060 SEMICONDCUTOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE RAYAN, MIHIR K 2622 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Oct 09, 2023
18374149 PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND PACKAGING METHOD ARORA, AJAY 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18202430 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER 2818 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 26, 2023
18140068 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF KOO, LAMONT B 2813 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 27, 2023
18117911 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND FABRICATION METHODS OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES BODNAR, JOHN A 2893 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2023
17963292 PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 2022

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