Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tsmc China Company Limited has 13 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 13 examiners across 11 art units, reflecting broad examination coverage and a portfolio that is not concentrated in a small examiner group.
TRA, ANH QUAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The distribution suggests that counsel will need a structured docket review organized by matter and art unit, with technology-specific positions carried consistently across separate examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.7% | +11.7% |
| HO, HOAI V | 1 | 92.7% | +5.5% |
| CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | 1 | 66.9% | +0.2% |
| ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 1 | 87.9% | +10.8% |
| ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | 1 | 91.4% | +4.1% |
| GHEYAS, SYED I | 1 | 82.8% | +3.7% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +5.7% |
| TRAN, THANH Y | 1 | 86.3% | +9.1% |
| WAN, DEMING | 1 | 76.5% | +42.2% |
| CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1 | 62.5% | -15.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984571 | SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR CONTROLLING TIMING OF SIGNAL IN MEMORY DEVICE | HO, HOAI V | — |
| 18769165 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | — |
| 18505257 | LATERAL DIFFUSION METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR (LDMOS) TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MAKING | TRAN, THANH Y | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009439 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18790987 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | — |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
| 18657385 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GHEYAS, SYED I | — |
| 18459165 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WAFER WET PROCESS | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009439 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
| 18479106 | DRYER TOOL AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | WAN, DEMING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2827 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009439 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | COMBER, KEVIN J | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18984571 | SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR CONTROLLING TIMING OF SIGNAL IN MEMORY DEVICE | HO, HOAI V | 2827 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18790987 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | CIESLEWICZ, ANETA B | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18769165 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | 2812 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18657385 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GHEYAS, SYED I | 2893 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18595016 | LATERAL DIFFUSED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18505257 | LATERAL DIFFUSION METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR (LDMOS) TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MAKING | TRAN, THANH Y | 2817 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18479106 | DRYER TOOL AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | WAN, DEMING | 3762 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2023 |
| 18459165 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WAFER WET PROCESS | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18447737 | METHOD OF MAKING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING BURIED BIAS PAD | MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN | 2818 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTsmc China Company Limited has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 11 examiners.
Kevin J Comber has the most, with 1 of Tsmc China Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
