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
Taiwan Semiconductor Manfacturing Company Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This specific filing is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, VU, DAVID, who serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized technical focus for this particular segment of the semiconductor portfolio.
With 1 pending office action, the current prosecution footprint for this entity is concentrated. VU, DAVID is the examiner currently reviewing pending claims, so the immediate legal strategy should be tailored to the specific examination style of this individual. The 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the procedural standards and prior art search methodologies applied to the 1 pending action. This centralized arrangement in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics means that the outcome of the 1 action will define the portfolio's current growth at the patent office. Counsel should analyze the specific examination history of the assigned examiner to anticipate potential hurdles.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, DAVID | 1 | 77.3% | +18.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
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