Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
UTAC Headquarters Pte. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, all within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the company's current prosecution, even as the 4 pending office actions are split among 3 distinct examiners. This structure allows the practitioner to focus on the specific technical standards of a single art unit while managing multiple examiner relationships.
CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. Since the other 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 other distinct examiners, the workload is slightly concentrated with 1 individual. However, because all 3 distinct examiners are in the same art unit, the technical arguments used across the 4 pending office actions are likely to be evaluated under a consistent set of guidelines. This balance of examiner variety and art unit concentration is a key feature of the company's current USPTO activity.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | 2 | 82.0% | +12.0% |
| HAN, JONATHAN | 1 | 83.8% | +9.7% |
| BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820297 | RELIABLE SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES | HAN, JONATHAN | — |
| 18319452 | BACK SURFACE PLASMA DICED WAFERS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818632 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES WITH THERMAL DISSIPATION | BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | — |
| 18747638 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Making an Optical Semiconductor Package | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747638 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Making an Optical Semiconductor Package | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | — |
| 18319452 | BACK SURFACE PLASMA DICED WAFERS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18820297 | RELIABLE SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES | HAN, JONATHAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18818632 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES WITH THERMAL DISSIPATION | BRECHT, CHARLES MATTHEW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18747638 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Making an Optical Semiconductor Package | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18319452 | BACK SURFACE PLASMA DICED WAFERS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHOUDHRY, MOHAMMAD M | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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