Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 4 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd. is currently managing 12 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 12 actions are handled by 12 distinct examiners, which means every pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This high level of examiner diversity suggests that the company must adapt to many different prosecution styles across its semiconductor portfolio.
The 12 pending actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical subject matter within the semiconductor field. DANNY NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, although they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner dominates the company's pending workload, requiring a broad and varied approach to patent prosecution across the 4 specialized art units.
With 12 pending office actions and 12 examiners, the company faces a one-to-one ratio that necessitates 12 separate negotiation tracks. The 4 distinct art units provide some technical concentration, but the lack of examiner overlap means that practitioners cannot easily leverage experiences from one case to another. This fragmented profile requires a versatile strategy to manage the 12 pending matters effectively across the different technical groups and individual examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, DANNY | 1 | 90.1% | +6.5% |
| PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 1 | 83.5% | +9.4% |
| STAHL, MICHAEL J | 1 | 90.1% | +7.5% |
| JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 1 | 15.9% | +63.6% |
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 71.3% | +15.6% |
| TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 1 | 60.6% | +12.5% |
| BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 1 | 78.3% | +14.0% |
| LE, UYEN CHAU N | 1 | 22.2% | -8.6% |
| SMITH, CHAD | 1 | 78.9% | +20.3% |
| PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1 | 35.5% | +48.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019298 | BASE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BASE | NGUYEN, DANNY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896034 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — |
| 18846124 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE USING SAME | STAHL, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18842795 | SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | — |
| 18840692 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18564441 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | — |
| 18518311 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | LE, UYEN CHAU N | — |
| 18278176 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | — |
| 18246559 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, OPTICAL MODULATOR, OPTICAL MODULATION MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE | CHIEM, DINH D | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390725 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 46d overdue |
| 18281107 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS WHICH USE SAME | SMITH, CHAD | 8d overdue |
| 18842795 | SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | — |
| 18840692 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18564441 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | — |
| 18278176 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 4 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19019298 | BASE, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BASE | NGUYEN, DANNY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18896034 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18846124 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE USING SAME | STAHL, MICHAEL J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18842795 | SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-TREATED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18840692 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18390725 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18564441 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING SAME | BEDTELYON, JOHN M | 2874 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18518311 | Optical Waveguide Device, and Optical Modulation Device and Optical Transmission Apparatus Using Same | LE, UYEN CHAU N | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18281107 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS WHICH USE SAME | SMITH, CHAD | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18278176 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES, DISPERSION LIQUID, COSMETIC PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-MODIFIED ZINC OXIDE PARTICLES | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18259385 | CERAMIC ASSEMBLY AND ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18246559 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, OPTICAL MODULATOR, OPTICAL MODULATION MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
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