Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. Furthermore, the prosecution is occurring in 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the foundation's semiconductor research spans multiple specialized examination groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DUMBRIS, SETH M, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the foundation. Since each of the 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is split, with no examiner holding more than 1 action. Practitioners should note that the foundation must navigate the specific preferences of 2 different examiners across 2 separate art units simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.6% |
| BOOTH, RICHARD A | 1 | 85.9% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561231 | PLATINUM GROUP METAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL PROVIDED WITH THE PLATINUM GROUP METAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM | BOOTH, RICHARD A | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273525 | SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL INCLUDING TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273525 | SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL INCLUDING TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273525 | SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL INCLUDING TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND LIGHT-RECEIVING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18561231 | PLATINUM GROUP METAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL PROVIDED WITH THE PLATINUM GROUP METAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM | BOOTH, RICHARD A | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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