Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SK Siltron Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each current matter is being evaluated by a different individual at the patent office. This distribution means that the company is managing multiple separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
All of the pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration is significant because it means that despite having multiple examiners, the company's current prosecution is subject to the specific policies and technical interpretations of 1 distinct art unit within the semiconductors field. A single art unit often shares common internal guidance, which may lead to more consistent results across the pending matters.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects an even distribution of the workload across the examiners involved. For the company, the primary focus remains on the standards of the art unit where all current activity is centralized, as the outcomes for the pending office actions will likely be influenced by the same supervisory environment.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | 1 | — | — |
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 76.8% | +31.6% |
| CHEN, JACK S J | 1 | 76.7% | +5.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790791 | LIFT PIN, WAFER PROCESSING APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WAFERS | CHEN, JACK S J | 9d |
| 18935814 | WAFER EDGE POLISHING DRUM AND WAFER EDGE POLISHING EQUIPMENT INCLUDING THE SAME | LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18816134 | WAFER DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EVALUATING THE SAME | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935814 | WAFER EDGE POLISHING DRUM AND WAFER EDGE POLISHING EQUIPMENT INCLUDING THE SAME | LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18816134 | WAFER DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EVALUATING THE SAME | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 17790791 | LIFT PIN, WAFER PROCESSING APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WAFERS | CHEN, JACK S J | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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