Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active for this portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and the specified art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution environment where the company's current legal activity is concentrated on a single point of review within the patent office.
RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions matches this examiner's workload, this official is the only examiner currently managing the company's applications. The presence of the distinct art unit in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector confirms that the company's current workload is localized.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.4% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329573 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT, VOLTAGE CONVERTER, AND CHIP | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18329573 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT, VOLTAGE CONVERTER, AND CHIP | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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