Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taicang Manaflex Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentration of technical focus despite the volume of pending matters. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that some examiners are handling multiple applications for the company. This structure requires the applicant to manage several simultaneous prosecution tracks within the semiconductor sector.
THOMAS K QUIGLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With 5 pending actions shared among 4 distinct examiners, the company must coordinate its responses to maintain consistency. Practitioners should pay close attention to the feedback from THOMAS K QUIGLEY, as his oversight of 2 pending actions makes him a key figure in the company's current prosecution. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units necessitates a strategy to address varying examiner preferences.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 2 | 73.2% | +20.2% |
| GANI, OBAIDUL NMN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | 1 | 92.5% | +4.3% |
| FLORES, JAVIER | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810710 | CONNECTOR | GANI, OBAIDUL NMN | — |
| 18741896 | CONNECTOR | BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390845 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF ALUMINUM SHEET SINTERED NICKEL LAYER | FLORES, JAVIER | 41d |
| 18669891 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — |
| 18397132 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669891 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — |
| 18397132 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18810710 | CONNECTOR | GANI, OBAIDUL NMN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18741896 | CONNECTOR | BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18669891 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18397132 | CONNECTOR | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | 2834 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18390845 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF ALUMINUM SHEET SINTERED NICKEL LAYER | FLORES, JAVIER | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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