Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 5 examiners and 5 art units, showing that the current portfolio activity is distributed across distinct examination assignments.
FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A practitioner should manage each file independently while using portfolio-level review to identify recurring claim language, disclosure positions, or technical themes across the separate semiconductor and circuit matters.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | 1 | 83.6% | +2.5% |
| SINGH, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 77.1% | +2.2% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.7% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.1% | +47.6% |
| EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1 | 60.1% | +6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041726 | CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL-BASED ARC FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER | FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281219 | COMPOSITE CHROMOGENIC COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 66d overdue |
| 18987613 | TWIST AND HYPER-TWIST POWER TAKE-OFF DEVICES | SINGH, ALEXANDER A | — |
| 18743999 | LIGHT ASSISTED DRYING METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF BIOLOGICS FOR PRESERVATION AND STORAGE | MARTIN, PAUL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281219 | COMPOSITE CHROMOGENIC COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 66d overdue |
| 18743999 | LIGHT ASSISTED DRYING METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF BIOLOGICS FOR PRESERVATION AND STORAGE | MARTIN, PAUL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041726 | CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL-BASED ARC FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER | FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18987613 | TWIST AND HYPER-TWIST POWER TAKE-OFF DEVICES | SINGH, ALEXANDER A | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18743999 | LIGHT ASSISTED DRYING METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF BIOLOGICS FOR PRESERVATION AND STORAGE | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18281219 | COMPOSITE CHROMOGENIC COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18030325 | SUSTAINABLE CURTAIN WALL | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of North Carolina at Charlotte has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Samantha Lynette Faubert has the most, with 1 of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
