Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property prosecution.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, NGUYEN, CUONG B. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, NGUYEN, CUONG B is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 pending action represents the entire active workload for the company at the patent office, indicating a very focused filing strategy.
Practitioners can tailor their strategy specifically to the 1 pending office action and the examination history of NGUYEN, CUONG B. Because the portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner, the firm can efficiently manage the prosecution process. This approach allows for a deep focus on the technical standards of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area as they relate to the 1 pending office action currently under review.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CUONG B | 1 | 88.3% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18138380 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Forming the Same | NGUYEN, CUONG B | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18138380 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Forming the Same | NGUYEN, CUONG B | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18138380 | Semiconductor Structure and Method for Forming the Same | NGUYEN, CUONG B | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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