Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
SK Keyfoundry Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are handled by 3 examiners across 3 art units, indicating a separate examination channel for each reported matter.
TANG, ANTHONY THINH is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Counsel should focus on matter-specific claim analysis and avoid assuming that an argument developed for one art unit will transfer without adjustment to another.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DULKA, JOHN P | 1 | 83.8% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476888 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A TRENCH CAPACITOR AND A LOGIC DEVICE | DULKA, JOHN P | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476888 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A TRENCH CAPACITOR AND A LOGIC DEVICE | DULKA, JOHN P | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18476888 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A TRENCH CAPACITOR AND A LOGIC DEVICE | DULKA, JOHN P | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSK Keyfoundry Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John P Dulka has the most, with 1 of SK Keyfoundry Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
