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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siliconix Incorporated currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution of this active case is concentrated in a single administrative channel, focusing the company's current patent office interaction on one specific technical review. This singular focus can simplify the management of the company's pending intellectual property.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KIM, JAY C, who manages 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for all current pending activity. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector indicates that the company's current prosecution is not distributed across multiple reviewers or departments, maintaining a very narrow administrative scope.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JAY C | 1 | 49.3% | +21.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230221 | METHOD FOR FORMING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND A STRUCTURE FORMED BY THE METHOD | KIM, JAY C | 37d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18230221 | METHOD FOR FORMING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND A STRUCTURE FORMED BY THE METHOD | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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