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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Ic R&D Center Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. TRAN, ANH Q is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the company's entire 1 pending office action. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific semiconductor-related application is currently under review.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the USPTO. This lack of diversification in examiners or art units means that the company's current patent prospects are tied to the evaluation of TRAN, ANH Q within that 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and history of this 1 distinct examiner. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow and specific focus in the company's current semiconductor filings. This 1 pending office action is the only one currently being evaluated for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, ANH Q | 1 | 90.2% | +4.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689869 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND CHIP | TRAN, ANH Q | 86d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689869 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND CHIP | TRAN, ANH Q | 2844 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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