Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smarter Microelectronics (Guang Zhou) Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are 3 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the multiple examiners, all prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is RAHMAN, HAFIZUR, who is currently managing 2 pending office actions.
This means that RAHMAN, HAFIZUR is responsible for 2 of the 3 total pending office actions. The other distinct examiner handles the remaining workload. This concentration of 2 actions with a single examiner within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's semiconductor innovations are being evaluated by a small group of patent office personnel. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is influenced by the specific tendencies of the art unit involved. The distribution of 3 actions across 2 examiners provides some variety in review styles. This structure allows the company to maintain a technical dialogue with the patent office within a single group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2 | 93.3% | +8.6% |
| NGUYEN, KHANH V | 1 | 93.5% | +2.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479093 | PHASE SHIFTER AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 5d overdue |
| 18479104 | AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD | NGUYEN, KHANH V | 34d |
| 18468709 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING POWER AMPLIFIER | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2843 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18479093 | PHASE SHIFTER AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2843 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2023 |
| 18479104 | AMPLIFIER ASSEMBLY AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD | NGUYEN, KHANH V | 2843 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 01, 2023 |
| 18468709 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING POWER AMPLIFIER | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2023 |
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