Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 8 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor Corporation maintains a large portfolio with 17 pending office actions focused in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 17 distinct examiners, creating a broad exposure to different individual examination styles. The portfolio spans 8 distinct art units, which indicates a diverse range of technical sub-specialties within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner, DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK, is currently handling 1 pending office action. This reflects a highly decentralized prosecution landscape where no single examiner manages more than a single case for the company. With so many distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate a wide variety of perspectives and interpretations of patent law and technical prior art.
The presence of 8 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions cover several different technological niches. This variety requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific requirements of each unit. Despite the high volume of 17 pending actions, the workload is spread so thinly that the busiest examiner only accounts for 1 pending office action, minimizing the impact of any one individual's tendencies on the overall portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 8 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRASAD, NEIL R | 1 | 85.4% | +9.8% |
| FARMER, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 89.6% | +6.3% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.6% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 1 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| CHOI, JACOB Y | 1 | 47.8% | +36.6% |
| CRAMER, HALEE PAIGE | 1 | 74.2% | +6.5% |
| ZHANG, YUANDA | 1 | 84.2% | +11.8% |
| PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 1 | 77.8% | +29.2% |
| EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 1 | 55.1% | +27.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783128 | METHOD FOR FORMING WET OXIDATION APERTURE SHAPE OF VCSEL DEVICE | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
| 18626549 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
| 18534188 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529861 | PHOTODIODE STRUCTURE | PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 30d overdue |
| 18642261 | PHYSIOLOGICAL VALUE SENSING DEVICE AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 4d overdue |
| 18775357 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE | FARMER, EMILY NICOLE | — |
| 18396161 | LIGHT SENSING ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CRAMER, HALEE PAIGE | — |
| 18515642 | CURVED NON-INVASIVE GLUCOSE MONITORING MODULE | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | — |
| 18495128 | HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | CAMPBELL, SHAUN M | — |
| 18480750 | MONOLITHIC OPTO-MOSFET RELAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529861 | PHOTODIODE STRUCTURE | PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 30d overdue |
| 18642261 | PHYSIOLOGICAL VALUE SENSING DEVICE AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 4d overdue |
| 18735345 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 18590553 | SOLID-STATE LIDAR DEVICE | CHOI, JACOB Y | — |
| 18534188 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | ZHANG, YUANDA | — |
| 18515642 | CURVED NON-INVASIVE GLUCOSE MONITORING MODULE | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2899 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783128 | METHOD FOR FORMING WET OXIDATION APERTURE SHAPE OF VCSEL DEVICE | PRASAD, NEIL R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18775357 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE | FARMER, EMILY NICOLE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18735345 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18642261 | PHYSIOLOGICAL VALUE SENSING DEVICE AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18626549 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18590553 | SOLID-STATE LIDAR DEVICE | CHOI, JACOB Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18396161 | LIGHT SENSING ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CRAMER, HALEE PAIGE | 2891 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18534188 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT | ZHANG, YUANDA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18529861 | PHOTODIODE STRUCTURE | PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI | 2899 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18515642 | CURVED NON-INVASIVE GLUCOSE MONITORING MODULE | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18512642 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE | GALVAN, ANGELICA ROS ESTIGOY | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18497525 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE | SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18495128 | HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | CAMPBELL, SHAUN M | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18490842 | NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING DEVICE | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18480750 | MONOLITHIC OPTO-MOSFET RELAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18465452 | SURFACE-EMITTING LASER WITH MULTILAYER THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MIRROR | GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A | 2828 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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