Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyota Tsusho Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a slight concentration of the company's workload, as the number of actions exceeds the number of examiners and art units involved.
QI, HUA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that QI, HUA is responsible for the majority of the company's current pending matters. The remaining action is handled by the other of the 2 distinct examiners. This concentration with QI, HUA in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area suggests that the company's success in this technology space is currently heavily influenced by a single reviewer. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific tendencies of QI, HUA, while also managing the 2 distinct art units where these applications are being examined.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QI, HUA | 2 | 56.6% | +23.1% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17763684 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES | QI, HUA | 18d overdue |
| 18840885 | METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING FORMATION OF STACKING FAULT, STRUCTURE PRODUCED BY THIS METHOD, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AFFECTED LAYER | QI, HUA | — |
| 18261101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING WORK-AFFECTED LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17763684 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES | QI, HUA | 18d overdue |
| 18840885 | METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING FORMATION OF STACKING FAULT, STRUCTURE PRODUCED BY THIS METHOD, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AFFECTED LAYER | QI, HUA | — |
| 18261101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING WORK-AFFECTED LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840885 | METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING FORMATION OF STACKING FAULT, STRUCTURE PRODUCED BY THIS METHOD, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AFFECTED LAYER | QI, HUA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18261101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING WORK-AFFECTED LAYER | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 17763684 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
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