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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Semitec Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one action. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a unified administrative environment despite the involvement of multiple examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may allow for some consistency in the legal arguments applied across the 2 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, LEE, KYUNG S, is responsible for 1 pending office action. While the company must manage 2 distinct examiners, the concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter for both pending office actions is closely related. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner histories of the 2 distinct examiners to anticipate potential rejections in this 1 distinct art unit. Success for this portfolio currently depends on the specific examination criteria applied to the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, KYUNG S | 1 | 87.2% | +8.3% |
| ALLEN, ANDRE J | 1 | 91.4% | +6.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281309 | ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING SENSOR, ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE | ALLEN, ANDRE J | 142d overdue |
| 18291566 | RESISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DEVICE INCLUDING RESISTOR | LEE, KYUNG S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291566 | RESISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DEVICE INCLUDING RESISTOR | LEE, KYUNG S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18281309 | ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING SENSOR, ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE | ALLEN, ANDRE J | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 142d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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