Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | 2 | 82.0% | +13.8% |
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.2% | +48.2% |
| KENIRY, HEATHER J | 1 | 80.2% | +20.1% |
| SHAH, NEEL D | 1 | 86.9% | +7.5% |
| KOETH, MICHELLE M | 1 | 77.3% | +16.4% |
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.1% | +35.3% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 34.8% | +50.4% |
| YAGER, JAMES C | 1 | 40.3% | +26.2% |
| CHEN, DAVID Z | 1 | 44.8% | +49.9% |
| CRAMER, HALEE PAIGE | 1 | 74.2% | +6.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008977 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT SYSTEM | KENIRY, HEATHER J | — |
| 18714387 | MAGNET FOR SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SINGLE CRYSTAL | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
| 18689143 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON MONOCRYSTAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON WAFER | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996737 | SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION METHOD | QI, HUA | 18d overdue |
| 18707473 | METHOD OF EVALUATING SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLE, EVALUATION DEVICE OF SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | SHAH, NEEL D | — |
| 18862214 | WAFER DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION PROGRAM, DETERMINATION APPARATUS, WAFER PRODUCTION METHOD, AND WAFER | KOETH, MICHELLE M | — |
| 18568469 | DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING METHOD FOR WORK AND DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING APPARATUS FOR WORK | SHUM, KENT N | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314973 | SILICON WAFER AND EPITAXIAL SILICON WAFER | CHEN, DAVID Z | 23d overdue |
| 19051718 | N-TYPE SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION METHOD, N-TYPE SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL INGOT, SILICON WAFER, AND EPITAXIAL SILICON WAFER | WANG, XIAOBEI | — |
| 19008977 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT SYSTEM | KENIRY, HEATHER J | — |
| 18862214 | WAFER DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION PROGRAM, DETERMINATION APPARATUS, WAFER PRODUCTION METHOD, AND WAFER | KOETH, MICHELLE M | — |
| 18723008 | METHOD FOR CUTTING SILICON INGOT | HUANG, STEVEN | — |
| 18714387 | MAGNET FOR SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SINGLE CRYSTAL | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
| 18689143 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON MONOCRYSTAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON WAFER | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
| 18568469 | DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING METHOD FOR WORK AND DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING APPARATUS FOR WORK | SHUM, KENT N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 3 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051718 | N-TYPE SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION METHOD, N-TYPE SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL INGOT, SILICON WAFER, AND EPITAXIAL SILICON WAFER | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1714 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19008977 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT SYSTEM | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18707473 | METHOD OF EVALUATING SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLE, EVALUATION DEVICE OF SEMICONDUCTOR SAMPLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | SHAH, NEEL D | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18862214 | WAFER DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION PROGRAM, DETERMINATION APPARATUS, WAFER PRODUCTION METHOD, AND WAFER | KOETH, MICHELLE M | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18723008 | METHOD FOR CUTTING SILICON INGOT | HUANG, STEVEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18714387 | MAGNET FOR SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SINGLE CRYSTAL | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18689143 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON MONOCRYSTAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SILICON WAFER | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18568469 | DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING METHOD FOR WORK AND DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING APPARATUS FOR WORK | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18290547 | QUARTZ GLASS CRUCIBLE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL | YAGER, JAMES C | 1731 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18314973 | SILICON WAFER AND EPITAXIAL SILICON WAFER | CHEN, DAVID Z | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 17979879 | SILICON WAFER AND EPITAXIAL SILICON WAFER | CRAMER, HALEE PAIGE | 2891 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
| 17996737 | SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND SINGLE CRYSTAL PRODUCTION METHOD | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
| 17788231 | VAPOR DEPOSITION DEVICE | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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