Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Institute Of Technical Physics Chinese Academy Of Sciences has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. RAHMAN, MD M is the busiest examiner for the entity, with 1 pending action. This distribution shows that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual in a different specialized art unit.
For a technical physics institute, this means that prosecution strategies must be customized for each specific examiner. The total of 2 pending actions indicates a focused but limited current engagement with the patent office. Because the actions are split between 2 distinct art units, there is no shared administrative path for these matters. Practitioners should analyze the specific tendencies of RAHMAN, MD M and the other assigned examiner separately. The focus on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics aligns with the institute's core research, but the small number of 2 pending office actions suggests a selective approach to current patent filings. The lack of examiner overlap ensures that each case is evaluated on its own merits without influence from the other pending matter.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, MD M | 1 | 92.4% | +11.9% |
| WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH | 1 | 85.7% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052568 | INTERFERENCE STRUCTURE, DETECTION APPARATUS, AND SPECTROMETER | RAHMAN, MD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634871 | PASSIVE 3D IMAGING METHOD BASED ON OPTICAL INTERFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING | WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH | 19d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634871 | PASSIVE 3D IMAGING METHOD BASED ON OPTICAL INTERFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING | WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH | 19d overdue |
| 19052568 | INTERFERENCE STRUCTURE, DETECTION APPARATUS, AND SPECTROMETER | RAHMAN, MD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052568 | INTERFERENCE STRUCTURE, DETECTION APPARATUS, AND SPECTROMETER | RAHMAN, MD M | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18634871 | PASSIVE 3D IMAGING METHOD BASED ON OPTICAL INTERFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING | WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH | 2673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Institute Of Technical Physics Chinese Academy Of Sciences has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Md M Rahman has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Institute Of Technical Physics Chinese Academy Of Sciences's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
