Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siltronic AG has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, indicating some art-unit concentration but no examiner concentration.
QI, HUA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Counsel should coordinate semiconductor-materials terminology across the portfolio while tailoring arguments to the individual examination records.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.8% | +13.5% |
| QI, HUA | 1 | 56.5% | +23.0% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.2% | +16.3% |
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.
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833949 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A STRAIN RELAXED GRADED BUFFER LAYER OF SILICON GERMANIUM ON A SURFACE OF A SUBSTRATE | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | — |
| 18833981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING BULK ß-GA2O3 SINGLE CRYSTALS AND ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING BULK ß-GA2O3 SINGLE CRYSTAL | QI, HUA | — |
| 18019145 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A LAYER OF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL ON A SUBSTRATE WAFER | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833949 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A STRAIN RELAXED GRADED BUFFER LAYER OF SILICON GERMANIUM ON A SURFACE OF A SUBSTRATE | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18833981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING BULK ß-GA2O3 SINGLE CRYSTALS AND ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING BULK ß-GA2O3 SINGLE CRYSTAL | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18019145 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A LAYER OF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL ON A SUBSTRATE WAFER | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSiltronic AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrew J Bowman has the most, with 1 of Siltronic AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
