Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Smarter Microelectronics (Guang Zhou) Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, KHANH V 2 93.6% +1.9%
RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 1 93.6% +8.1%
BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 1 78.3% +28.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18479093 PHASE SHIFTER AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 5d overdue
18467479 POWER AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, RADIO FREQUENCY CHIP AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE NGUYEN, KHANH V 22d
18479104 AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD NGUYEN, KHANH V 34d

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17929188 COMPENSATION CIRCUIT MODULE, POWER AMPLIFICATION ASSEMBLY, COMPENSATION METHOD AND DEVICE BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 209d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2843 4

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18479093 PHASE SHIFTER AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2023
18479104 AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD NGUYEN, KHANH V 2843 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 01, 2023
18467479 POWER AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, RADIO FREQUENCY CHIP AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE NGUYEN, KHANH V 2843 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 14, 2023
17929188 COMPENSATION CIRCUIT MODULE, POWER AMPLIFICATION ASSEMBLY, COMPENSATION METHOD AND DEVICE BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 209d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022

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