Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Semikron Danfoss Elektronik GmbH & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates a specialized technical focus for these pending matters. Because each of the 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must manage multiple sets of examiner expectations and prosecution styles simultaneously.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's semiconductor innovations are being reviewed by a single specialized technical group at the USPTO. This distribution means that the prosecution risk is concentrated within one administrative unit. For practitioners, this requires a strategy that can adapt to the specific precedents and examination standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. With the workload split among 2 distinct examiners, the company's immediate patenting success is not dependent on any single individual, but rather on the outcomes of independent review processes. This lack of examiner concentration can lead to varying timelines for the 2 pending office actions currently in the pipeline.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.4% | +19.6% |
| LEE, JYE-JUNE | 1 | 84.9% | +3.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896662 | THREE-LEVEL POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ARRANGEMENT THEREWITH | LEE, JYE-JUNE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898264 | THREE-LEVEL POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ARRANGEMENT THEREWITH | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898264 | THREE-LEVEL POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ARRANGEMENT THEREWITH | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898264 | THREE-LEVEL POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ARRANGEMENT THEREWITH | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18896662 | THREE-LEVEL POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ARRANGEMENT THEREWITH | LEE, JYE-JUNE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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