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
Tyco Electronics France SAS currently manages 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution pipeline at this stage. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the company's immediate patent strategy in this technical field is entirely dependent on a single point of review within the patent office. The lack of broader distribution across art units suggests that the current filings are tightly clustered around a specific technological niche.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PATEL, HARSHAD C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending office actions, suggesting that prosecution strategy is presently tied to the specific review of this individual examiner. Navigating this single action successfully is critical, as there are no other active matters to balance the portfolio's progress. The alignment of the busiest examiner's workload with the total pending actions highlights a period of singular focus for the company's intellectual property efforts in this sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, HARSHAD C | 1 | 82.9% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413439 | SOCKET, SOCKET CONNECTOR, CONTACT ELEMENT AND CONNECTION ASSEMBLY | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413439 | SOCKET, SOCKET CONNECTOR, CONTACT ELEMENT AND CONNECTION ASSEMBLY | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTyco Electronics France SAS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Harshad C Patel has the most, with 1 of Tyco Electronics France SAS's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
