Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smarter Silicon (Shanghai) Technologies Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, creating some concentration at both the examiner and art-unit levels.
ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD handles 2 pending matters, the largest stated examiner concentration. Counsel can use that relationship to coordinate responses where the records are related, while separately reviewing the matter assigned to another examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | 2 | — | — |
| PATEL, NIMESH G | 1 | 77.2% | +7.4% |
| RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 1 | 78.1% | +3.2% |
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886366 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — |
| 18886342 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, LOAD COUNTING METHOD, AND FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD OF PROCESSOR | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078917 | SOURCE SYNCHRONOUS INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD | PATEL, NIMESH G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19000665 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD WITH DEVICE, AND A VEDIO PROCESSING METHOD WITH DEVICE | RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 2677 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18886366 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18886342 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, LOAD COUNTING METHOD, AND FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD OF PROCESSOR | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | 2194 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18812736 | IMAGE RENDERING METHOD AND DEVICE | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSmarter Silicon (Shanghai) Technologies Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lucas Donald Absher has the most, with 2 of Smarter Silicon (Shanghai) Technologies Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
