Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Communications technology area. The portfolio features 4 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is currently handling more than 1 pending matter. Prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units. HALEY, JOSEPH R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The presence of 4 pending actions indicates a steady volume of ongoing prosecution within the communications sector.
The ratio of 4 pending office actions to 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's communications technology is being evaluated across several specialized groups. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Practitioners should prepare for separate examiner interactions across the 3 distinct art units. This level of examiner diversity requires a strategy that accounts for varied examiner styles. Coordination across the identified art units is essential for maintaining consistency in the company's communications filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.2% | +7.3% |
| SOTO LOPEZ, JOSE R | 1 | 69.1% | +3.7% |
| KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | 1 | 91.2% | +7.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955036 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT | KINKEAD, ARNOLD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19190859 | TOUCHPAD AND KEYBOARD INTEGRATED DEVICE | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190859 | TOUCHPAD AND KEYBOARD INTEGRATED DEVICE | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19176185 | BUTTON STRUCTURE OF PROJECTED CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL | SOTO LOPEZ, JOSE R | 2622 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18955036 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT | KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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