Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 9 (64%) |
| §102 only | 2 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 2 | 60.4% | +14.0% |
| KIM, JAY C | 2 | 48.8% | +22.3% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 54.8% | +17.5% |
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 65.9% | +35.2% |
| MARIN, JACOB RAUL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 65.0% | +45.2% |
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.3% | +38.0% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.3% | +16.3% |
| QI, HUA | 1 | 55.4% | +23.7% |
| LEE, WOO KYUNG | 1 | 80.9% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269646 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN EPITAXIAL WAFER | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 37d overdue |
| 18286691 | SILICON WAFER MANUFACTURING METHOD | MARIN, JACOB RAUL | 6d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272253 | SINGLE CRYSTAL PULLING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PULLING SINGLE CRYSTAL | QI, HUA | 38d overdue |
| 18269646 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN EPITAXIAL WAFER | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 37d overdue |
| 18683339 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 26d overdue |
| 18276463 | METHOD FOR DETECTING SURFACE STATE OF RAW MATERIAL MELT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINGLE CRYSTAL, AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CZ SINGLE CRYSTAL | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 22d overdue |
| 18876870 | METHOD FOR GROWING DIAMOND LAYER AND MICROWAVE PLASMA CVD APPARATUS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 5d overdue |
| 18283051 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 2d overdue |
| 18281044 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WAFER AND WAFER | HUANG, STEVEN | 5d |
| 18019916 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE AND SILICON SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 4 |
| 2815 | 3 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876870 | METHOD FOR GROWING DIAMOND LAYER AND MICROWAVE PLASMA CVD APPARATUS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18683339 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18572929 | CLEAN ROOM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18286691 | SILICON WAFER MANUFACTURING METHOD | MARIN, JACOB RAUL | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18283051 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18281044 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WAFER AND WAFER | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18276463 | METHOD FOR DETECTING SURFACE STATE OF RAW MATERIAL MELT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINGLE CRYSTAL, AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CZ SINGLE CRYSTAL | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18272620 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18272621 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18272253 | SINGLE CRYSTAL PULLING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PULLING SINGLE CRYSTAL | QI, HUA | 1714 | Other | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18269646 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN EPITAXIAL WAFER | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18019916 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE AND SILICON SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17924248 | METHOD FOR ETCHING SILICON WAFER | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17920937 | METHOD FOR DRY-ETCHING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR DRY-ETCHING SILICON OXIDE FILM | ANDERSON, ERIK ARTHUR | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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