Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Socionext Inc. operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 16 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 9 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's filings are reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office. The prosecution involves 16 distinct examiners.
COX, CASSANDRA F is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action is a small part of the total workload. The number of 16 distinct examiners matches the number of pending office actions, which means each case is likely handled by a different individual. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area is the primary focus for these matters.
Practitioners should observe that COX, CASSANDRA F is the busiest examiner despite having only a small pending workload. This suggests an even distribution of cases among the distinct examiners. With 9 distinct art units involved, the company's intellectual property strategy is spread across several technical niches within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (27%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COX, CASSANDRA F | 1 | 94.4% | +3.0% |
| LUU, PHO M | 1 | 96.9% | +3.3% |
| KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 1 | 74.1% | +14.2% |
| ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 1 | 83.4% | +4.2% |
| KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 1 | 46.9% | +5.1% |
| SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 1 | 83.8% | +3.4% |
| STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 1 | 87.5% | +16.7% |
| GOODWIN, DAVID J | 1 | 67.4% | +16.5% |
| HOANG, HAN DINH | 1 | 75.0% | +17.7% |
| DING, XIAOMAO | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 22d |
| 19227598 | PHASE INTERPOLATOR CIRCUIT, RECEPTION CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | COX, CASSANDRA F | — |
| 19082854 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | LUU, PHO M | — |
| 18886493 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827261 | FILTER CIRCUITRY AND CIRCUITRY COMPRISING THE SAME | SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 2d overdue |
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | — |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| 18738962 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | DING, XIAOMAO | — |
| 18606421 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WARREN, MATTHEW E | — |
| 18526546 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | — |
| 18524843 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 22d |
| 19106948 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | — |
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | — |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227598 | PHASE INTERPOLATOR CIRCUIT, RECEPTION CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | COX, CASSANDRA F | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19082854 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | LUU, PHO M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19106948 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18886493 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18882246 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18827261 | FILTER CIRCUITRY AND CIRCUITRY COMPRISING THE SAME | SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 2842 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18825831 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18785950 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | GOODWIN, DAVID J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18771325 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18738962 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | DING, XIAOMAO | 2676 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18608113 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18606421 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WARREN, MATTHEW E | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18526546 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 2811 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18524843 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BEATTY, TY MITCHELL | 2663 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18489440 | OUTPUT CIRCUIT | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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