Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
21 pending office actions • 7 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. currently manages 20 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 20 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles a single pending action. The workload spans 7 distinct art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for varied examination standards across these different groups.
LANE, DEVON is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. The presence of 7 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon multiple specialized technical classifications. Because the examiners are each assigned to a single case, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's previous rulings across multiple applications. Each of the pending office actions will likely require an independent approach tailored to the specific perspectives of the individuals involved. This decentralized structure requires a high level of coordination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 7 (33%) |
| §102 only | 3 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (52%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| JALALI, AMIR A. | 1 | 78.5% | +22.3% |
| THAYER, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | — | — |
| TSO, STANLEY | 1 | 75.5% | +34.3% |
| JAHAN, BILKIS | 1 | 88.7% | +10.2% |
| CHEN, JACK S J | 1 | 76.7% | +5.6% |
| SABUR, ALIA | 1 | 74.6% | +6.3% |
| ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 1 | 66.6% | +18.1% |
| ALVARE, PAUL | 1 | 57.6% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943163 | CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779783 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT | ALVARE, PAUL | 56d |
| 18931372 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT-INCORPORATING SUBSTRATE | JALALI, AMIR A. | — |
| 18822905 | WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | — |
| 18817574 | STACKED WIRING SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JAHAN, BILKIS | — |
| 18798016 | WIRING BOARD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, JACK S J | — |
| 18793304 | LEAD FRAME, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND LEAD FRAME MANUFACTURING METHOD | SABUR, ALIA | — |
| 18612186 | LEAD FRAME AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG | — |
| 18612214 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779783 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT | ALVARE, PAUL | 56d |
| 19051640 | HEAT STORAGE DEVICE | LANE, DEVON | — |
| 18943163 | CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18931372 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT-INCORPORATING SUBSTRATE | JALALI, AMIR A. | — |
| 18822905 | WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | — |
| 18817574 | STACKED WIRING SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JAHAN, BILKIS | — |
| 18782907 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 2 |
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051640 | HEAT STORAGE DEVICE | LANE, DEVON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18943163 | CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK AND SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE | COMBER, KEVIN J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18931372 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT-INCORPORATING SUBSTRATE | JALALI, AMIR A. | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18902065 | WIRING BOARD | THAYER, ABIGAIL MARIE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18822905 | WIRING BOARD | TSO, STANLEY | 2847 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18817574 | STACKED WIRING SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | JAHAN, BILKIS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18798016 | WIRING BOARD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, JACK S J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18793304 | LEAD FRAME, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND LEAD FRAME MANUFACTURING METHOD | SABUR, ALIA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18782907 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18779783 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18735353 | WIRING SUBSTRATE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE WIRING SUBSTRATE | WHALEN, DANIEL B | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18629124 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WIRING SUBSTRATE | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18612186 | LEAD FRAME AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | TRAN, BENJAMIN HOANG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18612214 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18590384 | SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE | TRAN, TIFFANY T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18408935 | MYOELECTRIC SENSOR | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18502605 | WIRING SUBSTRATE | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18489288 | INTERCONNECT SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | TURNER, BRIAN | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18460959 | HEAT SPREADER AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18337213 | SUBSTRATE FIXING DEVICE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18321198 | HEAT CONDUCTOR | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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