Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Material Solutions Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is handled by a unique individual. All 3 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, showing a unified technical classification for the portfolio.
WANG, JING is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending actions, the workload is evenly split. The concentration of multiple examiners in 1 art unit suggests that the company's semiconductor materials applications are being reviewed by several different people within the same specialized office. This allows the company to benefit from different examiner perspectives while maintaining a consistent focus within a single technical group. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from all three examiners to identify any common themes or requirements within this specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.4% | +9.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108429 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 34d |
| 18890874 | METHOD FOR MONITORING NEUTRON RAY AND ION IMPLANTER | WANG, JING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820393 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18890874 | METHOD FOR MONITORING NEUTRON RAY AND ION IMPLANTER | WANG, JING | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18820393 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18108429 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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