Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Soreq Nuclear Research Center has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the center's current semiconductor research is being examined by different technical groups within the patent office. The separation into different units suggests that the technologies being patented are distinct enough to require different specialized oversight.
SMITH, MAURICE C is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. Because there are 2 pending office actions total, the workload is divided between the examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the patent office has categorized the center's applications into two different specialized areas within the broader semiconductors and optics field. For the legal team, this means managing two separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards. This structure requires a focus on the specific requirements of each 1 distinct art unit involved in the center's current patenting efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.6% | -4.2% |
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 1 | 54.4% | +38.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718441 | VECTOR MAGNETIC SENSOR BASED ON A STRETCHABLE WHISPERING GALLERY MODE MICRORESONATOR | SMITH, MAURICE C | 56d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567125 | TUNABLE LONG COHERENCE LASER LOCKED TO A MICRORESONATOR VIA SELF-INJECTION | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567125 | TUNABLE LONG COHERENCE LASER LOCKED TO A MICRORESONATOR VIA SELF-INJECTION | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718441 | VECTOR MAGNETIC SENSOR BASED ON A STRETCHABLE WHISPERING GALLERY MODE MICRORESONATOR | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18567125 | TUNABLE LONG COHERENCE LASER LOCKED TO A MICRORESONATOR VIA SELF-INJECTION | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSoreq Nuclear Research Center has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Maurice C Smith has the most, with 1 of Soreq Nuclear Research Center's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
