Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tekscend Photomask Corp. has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing meaningful examiner concentration within a narrow art-unit footprint. The active workload therefore supports coordinated review of recurring technical and claim issues.
FRASER, STEWART A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should compare those matters for common objections while maintaining separate response strategies for the other examiner assignments and both art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRASER, STEWART A | 2 | 86.0% | +14.4% |
| CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 2 | 72.0% | +20.4% |
| VINEIS, FRANK J | 2 | 39.9% | +44.8% |
| COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1 | 53.0% | +33.9% |
| ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1 | 55.5% | +34.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727041 | PHASE SHIFT MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
| 18277053 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271556 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 42d overdue |
| 18028159 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 48d |
| 18727041 | PHASE SHIFT MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
| 18281542 | PHASE SHIFT MASK BLANK, PHASE SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | — |
| 18277053 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
| 18271032 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | — |
| 17920386 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | VINEIS, FRANK J | — |
| 17778402 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | VINEIS, FRANK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1737 | 6 |
| 1724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727041 | PHASE SHIFT MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK | FRASER, STEWART A | 1724 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18281542 | PHASE SHIFT MASK BLANK, PHASE SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1737 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18277053 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | FRASER, STEWART A | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18271556 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18271032 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1737 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18028159 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 17920386 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | VINEIS, FRANK J | 1737 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
| 17778402 | REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE PHOTOMASK | VINEIS, FRANK J | 1737 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTekscend Photomask Corp. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Stewart A Fraser has the most, with 2 of Tekscend Photomask Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
