Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Soitec

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
5
Semiconductors
71% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUSSER, BARBARA J 1 71.0% +27.3%
VU, DAVID 1 76.8% +18.0%
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 1 77.8% -5.0%
GHYKA, ALEXANDER G 1 83.6% +13.8%
ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 1 77.4% +8.3%
KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 1 80.8% +18.6%
MAI, ANH D 1 37.6% +9.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18248169 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUBSTRATE FOR EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF A GALLIUM-BASED III-N ALLOY LAYER GHYKA, ALEXANDER G 21d
18042948 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR DEVICE FORMED ON A QUARTZ SUBSTRATE KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 55d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18551346 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A LAYER OF A HETEROSTRUCTURE VU, DAVID 3d overdue
18843028 METHOD FOR CORRECTING THE THICKNESS OF A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER MUSSER, BARBARA J 7d
18248169 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUBSTRATE FOR EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF A GALLIUM-BASED III-N ALLOY LAYER GHYKA, ALEXANDER G 21d
18042948 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR DEVICE FORMED ON A QUARTZ SUBSTRATE KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2818 2
1746 1
2812 1
2837 1
2688 1
2893 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18843028 METHOD FOR CORRECTING THE THICKNESS OF A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER MUSSER, BARBARA J 1746 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18551346 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A LAYER OF A HETEROSTRUCTURE VU, DAVID 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2023
18263802 METHOD FOR PREPARING THE RESIDUE OF A DONOR SUBSTRATE, A LAYER OF WHICH HAS BEEN REMOVED BY DELAMINATION DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2818 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18248169 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUBSTRATE FOR EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF A GALLIUM-BASED III-N ALLOY LAYER GHYKA, ALEXANDER G 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18179071 COMPOSITE SUBSTRATES INCLUDING EPITAXIAL MONOCRYSTALLINE PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS BONDED TO SUBSTRATES, AND ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES FORMED WITH SUCH COMPOSITE SUBSTRATES ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18042948 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR DEVICE FORMED ON A QUARTZ SUBSTRATE KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2688 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Feb 24, 2023
17757822 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FULLY-DEPLETED SEMICONDUCTOR-ON-INSULATOR (FD_SOI) STRUCTURE INCLUDING HEAT-TREATING AN SOI SUBSTATE HAVING A P-TYPE MONOCRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER TO FORM A P-N JUNCTION BY DIFFUSION OF DOPANTS MAI, ANH D 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 21, 2022

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