Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a focused but multi-faceted prosecution effort, with filings reaching several specialized groups within the semiconductor sector.
JOSEPH FIDELIS STORMES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This means that while most examiners are handling a single action, one examiner has a larger share of the company's pending workload. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations span several related but distinct technical areas within the semiconductor field, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examination standards across multiple groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2 | 87.5% | +16.7% |
| RODELA, EDUARDO A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.7% |
| FAHMY, WAEL M | 1 | 39.5% | -31.9% |
| SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 1 | 75.0% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17844935 | VERTICAL FLOATING BODY MEMORY CELLS PERFORMING PAGE ERASE AND PAGE REFRESH OPERATIONS | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 29d |
| 18337988 | VERTICAL SURROUNDING GATE TRANSISTOR MEMORY DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 33d |
| 18660471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY ELEMENT | RODELA, EDUARDO A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332968 | PILLAR-SHAPED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 1d overdue |
| 17844935 | VERTICAL FLOATING BODY MEMORY CELLS PERFORMING PAGE ERASE AND PAGE REFRESH OPERATIONS | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 29d |
| 18337988 | VERTICAL SURROUNDING GATE TRANSISTOR MEMORY DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2825 | 2 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660471 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY ELEMENT | RODELA, EDUARDO A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18397079 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY ELEMENTS | FAHMY, WAEL M | 2814 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18337988 | VERTICAL SURROUNDING GATE TRANSISTOR MEMORY DEVICE | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18332968 | PILLAR-SHAPED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 17844935 | VERTICAL FLOATING BODY MEMORY CELLS PERFORMING PAGE ERASE AND PAGE REFRESH OPERATIONS | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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