Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The U.s. Department of Energy is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the department's research output in this sector is technically diverse. Having 4 units involved for only 4 actions indicates that the portfolio is not concentrated in a single specialized niche, requiring a broad understanding of different examination standards.
There are 4 distinct examiners assigned to these matters, resulting in a matching ratio of examiners to pending actions. Jinney Kil is identified as the busiest examiner for the department, though they currently hold only 1 pending action. This distribution means that every pending case is being reviewed by a different person. For the practitioner, this implies that successful strategies used with Jinney Kil or other examiners may not be directly applicable to other active files in the portfolio due to the lack of examiner overlap across the 4 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIL, JINNEY | 1 | 46.9% | +53.2% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.8% | -11.8% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 1 | 78.0% | +6.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388272 | INCORPORATING CONSTRICTION JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS IN SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS FOR A SINGLE PATTERNING STEP FABRICATION | KIM, SU C | 4d overdue |
| 19334175 | A PHYSICS-BASED SYSTEM TO DETECT, FORECAST, AND INFORM AVOIDANCE OF DISRUPTIONS IN FUSION DEVICES | KIL, JINNEY | 1d overdue |
| 18624383 | Electro-optic Modulator Device, Method, and Applications | LEI, JIE | 70d |
| 17240344 | TERNARY TRANSITION METAL HALIDE SCINTILLATORS | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334175 | A PHYSICS-BASED SYSTEM TO DETECT, FORECAST, AND INFORM AVOIDANCE OF DISRUPTIONS IN FUSION DEVICES | KIL, JINNEY | 1d overdue |
| 18624383 | Electro-optic Modulator Device, Method, and Applications | LEI, JIE | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19334175 | A PHYSICS-BASED SYSTEM TO DETECT, FORECAST, AND INFORM AVOIDANCE OF DISRUPTIONS IN FUSION DEVICES | KIL, JINNEY | 3646 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 18624383 | Electro-optic Modulator Device, Method, and Applications | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18388272 | INCORPORATING CONSTRICTION JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS IN SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS FOR A SINGLE PATTERNING STEP FABRICATION | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 17240344 | TERNARY TRANSITION METAL HALIDE SCINTILLATORS | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2021 |
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