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 Manufacturing Co. Lid currently faces 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current pending matters. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit means that the company's immediate patenting efforts are not spread across different technical divisions. For the legal team, this provides an opportunity to focus on the specific examination standards prevalent in this particular area of semiconductor technology. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a very targeted approach to the company's current intellectual property strategy.
The busiest examiner, CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner manages the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Prosecution strategy should be tailored to the specific practices of this examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide a broader context for the company's current interactions with the patent office. With 1 busiest examiner pending action representing the total 1 pending office action, the examiner's individual feedback is the primary factor in the portfolio's current progress. Practitioners should prioritize a thorough review of this examiner's past actions to anticipate potential hurdles.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JAY C | 1 | 49.4% | +21.6% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18188984 | GALLIUM NITRIDE HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR | KIM, JAY C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18188984 | GALLIUM NITRIDE HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Lid has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jay C Kim has the most, with 1 of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Lid's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
