Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Shi Fw Energia OY is managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the workload is not entirely fragmented. The portfolio is also spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the technical scope of the pending applications involves multiple specialized classifications within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner, SPLIT, JAMES GERALD, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means a majority of the company's current challenges are concentrated with a specific individual, while the other of the 2 distinct examiners handles the rest of the 3 pending office actions. This concentration allows for a more focused prosecution strategy for the bulk of the portfolio.
With 3 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct art units, practitioners must account for the specific examination cultures of these units. The fact that SPLIT, JAMES GERALD manages 2 pending actions suggests that his decisions will have a significant impact on the overall health of the portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners requires balancing different sets of examiner feedback to resolve the current 3 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2 | 61.4% | +35.3% |
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.1% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576482 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A TUBE LEAKAGE IN A WATER-STEAM CIRCUIT OF A COMBUSTION BOILER SYSTEM, AND A COMBUSTION BOILER | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 40d |
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576482 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A TUBE LEAKAGE IN A WATER-STEAM CIRCUIT OF A COMBUSTION BOILER SYSTEM, AND A COMBUSTION BOILER | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 40d |
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| 18686096 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LEAKAGE IN A HEAT TRANSFER FLUID CHANNEL OF A HEAT TRANSFERRING REACTOR SYSTEM, AND A HEAT TRANSFERRING REACTOR | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688037 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LOCAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALY IN A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF CALIBRATING A NUMERICAL MODEL OF A FLUIDIZED BED OF A COMBUSTION BOILER, METHOD OF ESTIMATING A RISK OF FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION BOILER BED SINTERING, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FLUIDIZED BED BOILER, AS WELL AS A COMBUSTION BOILER | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18686096 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A LEAKAGE IN A HEAT TRANSFER FLUID CHANNEL OF A HEAT TRANSFERRING REACTOR SYSTEM, AND A HEAT TRANSFERRING REACTOR | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18576482 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A TUBE LEAKAGE IN A WATER-STEAM CIRCUIT OF A COMBUSTION BOILER SYSTEM, AND A COMBUSTION BOILER | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2858 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Shi Fw Energia OY has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
James Gerald Split has the most, with 2 of Sumitomo Shi Fw Energia OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
