Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIKORN SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patent activities cover different technical sub-specialties or applications within the semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents half of the current pending workload for the organization. Because the 2 pending office actions are in 2 distinct art units, the applicant must navigate different administrative environments and potentially different examination standards for each case.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests a lack of concentration in the prosecution pipeline. Practitioners must be prepared to adapt their strategies to the specific requirements of PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R and the other involved examiner. Efficiently managing these 2 pending office actions requires careful coordination to ensure that the technical disclosures remain consistent across the different art units.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 1 | 86.4% | +8.6% |
| ALBRECHT, PETER M | 1 | 71.4% | +3.8% |
| NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 1 | 60.5% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745250 | NON-CONTACT DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 44d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640671 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | ALBRECHT, PETER M | — |
| 18403278 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18403278 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18745250 | NON-CONTACT DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18640671 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE | ALBRECHT, PETER M | 2811 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18403278 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 2893 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUNIKORN SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Demetrius R Pretlow has the most, with 1 of UNIKORN SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
