Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Txc Corporation operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. David William Ward is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a diversified prosecution strategy. Each examiner, including David William Ward, is responsible for 1 of the 2 current pending matters. Because the actions are in 2 distinct art units, the company must address different technical benchmarks.
Practitioners should prepare distinct arguments for each examiner to address the specific requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field in each art unit. David William Ward's involvement represents half of the company's current interaction with the patent office. Successfully resolving the 2 pending office actions will require a dual-track approach that respects the unique standards of both 2 distinct art units.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | 1 | 62.3% | +37.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404800 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404800 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2891 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18404800 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | 2891 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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