Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silixa Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating a distributed but small-scale prosecution effort. The workload is split among the assigned staff, with no single examiner managing more than a single case. This distribution of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company is not currently facing a backlog with any specific individual.
NGUYEN, SANG H is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this suggests that prosecution strategies can be tailored to individual examiner preferences without the need to account for high-volume internal precedents or conflicting rejections from the same official. The alignment of 2 distinct examiners with 2 distinct art units shows that each application is likely facing a unique technical environment, requiring counsel to prepare distinct arguments for each matter rather than relying on a unified approach across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, SANG H | 1 | 88.7% | +11.6% |
| FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB | 1 | 67.3% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19267747 | LONG RANGE OPTICAL FIBER SENSING SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209569 | Method and Apparatus for Optical Sensing | FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209569 | Method and Apparatus for Optical Sensing | FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB | 61d |
| 19267747 | LONG RANGE OPTICAL FIBER SENSING SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19267747 | LONG RANGE OPTICAL FIBER SENSING SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, SANG H | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 18209569 | Method and Apparatus for Optical Sensing | FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSilixa Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sang H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Silixa Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
