Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Techifab GmbH manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, accounting for a portion of the company's pending files. For a practitioner, the distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 examiners means that each case is being handled independently.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology may involve different semiconductor or optical sub-specialties. This requires the practitioner to monitor 2 separate examination tracks simultaneously. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from the 2 examiners to identify any common themes or divergent requirements. Because the workload is split between 2 distinct art units, the legal team must ensure that the technical disclosures are interpreted consistently. This profile represents a balanced approach to prosecution where no 1 examiner or art unit dominates the company's current pending interests in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 1 | 72.3% | +18.4% |
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 68.0% | +23.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 33d |
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 33d |
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 1794 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTechifab GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Vongsavanh Sengdara has the most, with 1 of Techifab GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
