Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Awinic Microelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The concentration of the pending office action under a distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This arrangement means that the company's immediate results in this technology area are dependent on the review of the assigned examiner. Practitioners should note that with a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior or art unit trends within this specific portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA, who is currently responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. This specific examiner's handling of the pending office action indicates that the company's current activity is not spread across different personnel. Because the portfolio is limited to a distinct art unit, the technical focus remains narrow. The pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload in this specific technology area, which may simplify the management of the prosecution timeline.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753288 | DIGITAL AUDIO AMPLIFIER, CHIP, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2843 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18753288 | DIGITAL AUDIO AMPLIFIER, CHIP, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Awinic Microelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Natasha Yolanda Marano has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Awinic Microelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
