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
Synaptec Limited operates a company patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Currently, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action, which represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SUN, XIUQIN, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The data confirms that SUN, XIUQIN is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action at this time.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technological scope for the company's semiconductor and optics filings. For a practitioner, this high level of concentration means that the success of the entire pending portfolio depends on the interaction with a single examiner in a single administrative unit. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to provide alternative paths for the 1 pending office action. Consequently, the specific examination style and preferences of SUN, XIUQIN will be the determining factor for the company's immediate patent outcomes. The 1 distinct art unit further centralizes the administrative oversight of the current workload.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, XIUQIN | 1 | 72.5% | +4.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537469 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A TIME-SYNCHRONISED PHASOR MEASUREMENT | SUN, XIUQIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537469 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A TIME-SYNCHRONISED PHASOR MEASUREMENT | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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