Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 4 (24%) |
| §102 only | 3 (18%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (35%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHO, SUNG IL | 2 | 91.4% | +8.5% |
| TRA, ANH QUAN | 1 | 72.9% | +5.3% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| HO, HOAI V | 1 | 92.7% | +5.5% |
| YANG, HAN | 1 | 92.0% | +11.8% |
| ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 1 | 87.5% | +11.0% |
| ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | 1 | 91.4% | +4.1% |
| GHEYAS, SYED I | 1 | 82.5% | +3.9% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +6.0% |
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984571 | SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR CONTROLLING TIMING OF SIGNAL IN MEMORY DEVICE | HO, HOAI V | — |
| 18973630 | TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE WITH TRACKING WORD LINE AND TRACKING BIT LINE | CHO, SUNG IL | — |
| 18949858 | MEMORY DEVICE | YANG, HAN | — |
| 18769165 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 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 | — |
| 18973508 | TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE WITH TRACKING WORD LINE AND TRACKING BIT LINE | CHO, SUNG IL | — |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
| 18657385 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | GHEYAS, SYED I | — |
| 18435511 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | WIEGAND, TYLER J | — |
| 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 4 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 | — |
| 18949858 | MEMORY DEVICE | YANG, HAN | — |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — |
| 18582100 | POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012386 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | TRA, ANH QUAN | 2843 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 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 | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18973508 | TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE WITH TRACKING WORD LINE AND TRACKING BIT LINE | CHO, SUNG IL | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18973630 | TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT OF MEMORY DEVICE WITH TRACKING WORD LINE AND TRACKING BIT LINE | CHO, SUNG IL | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18949858 | MEMORY DEVICE | YANG, HAN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18789471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18769165 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y | — | §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 |
| 18582100 | POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18435511 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | WIEGAND, TYLER J | 2812 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 17694088 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | 2812 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2022 |
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