Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sg Micro Corp. has 2 pending office actions concentrated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, creating a highly centralized prosecution environment. This concentration means that the company's immediate prosecution outcomes in this area depend entirely on the decisions of a single individual within the patent office.
ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in these 2 pending office actions, there is no variation in examination style or departmental policy for the company to navigate. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this single examiner, as they hold total responsibility for the current pending matters in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707974 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 79d |
| 18880305 | Control Circuit of Variable-Frequency Switching Converter and Variable-Frequency Switching Converter | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707974 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 79d |
| 18880305 | Control Circuit of Variable-Frequency Switching Converter and Variable-Frequency Switching Converter | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880305 | Control Circuit of Variable-Frequency Switching Converter and Variable-Frequency Switching Converter | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18707974 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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