Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
VisEra Technologies Company Limited maintains a portfolio with 9 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical scope within the semiconductor field. The company interacts with 8 distinct examiners, which suggests that most applications are being reviewed by different individuals. This diversity requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different examination styles and technical standards simultaneously.
JUNG, JONATHAN Y is the busiest examiner for VisEra Technologies, currently managing 2 pending office actions. The remaining examiners handle the other cases. This distribution of 8 distinct examiners for 9 actions means that the company's intellectual property is subject to various individual interpretations. Practitioners should address the specific nuances of each of the 6 distinct art units to manage the pending office actions effectively. The high ratio of examiners to actions requires a flexible approach to successfully move the portfolio forward.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 5 (56%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2 | 72.6% | +16.8% |
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 78.6% | +19.5% |
| PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH | 1 | 76.7% | +10.0% |
| SUN, MICHAEL BRENNAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 1 | 76.6% | +16.3% |
| NARAGHI, ALI | 1 | 86.4% | +5.1% |
| MAI, ANH D | 1 | 37.7% | +9.6% |
| GARCES, NELSON Y | 1 | 80.6% | +3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17173469 | IMAGE SENSOR HAVING A GRID STRUCTURE WITH SMALLER TOP WIDTH THAN BOTTOM WIDTH | GARCES, NELSON Y | 31d overdue |
| 18075774 | IMAGE SENSOR | NARAGHI, ALI | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676875 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | — |
| 18633991 | IMAGE SENSOR | SUN, MICHAEL BRENNAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941011 | DETECTION DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONCENTRATION USING THE SAME | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
| 18754903 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR | PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH | — |
| 18676875 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | — |
| 18299708 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | — |
| 18176854 | IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941011 | DETECTION DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONCENTRATION USING THE SAME | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18754903 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR | PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18676875 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18633991 | IMAGE SENSOR | SUN, MICHAEL BRENNAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18299708 | OPTICAL STRUCTURE | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18176854 | IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18075774 | IMAGE SENSOR | NARAGHI, ALI | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17716079 | AN IMAGE SENSOR HAVING SECOND DEEP TRENCH ISOLATION STRUCTURE LOCATED CLOSE TO A CORNER OF THE SENSOR UNITS BEING ASYMMETRICAL WITH RESPECT TO A HORIZONTAL MIDDLE LINE OR A VERTICAL LINE WITHIN THE SENSOR UNITS | MAI, ANH D | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17173469 | IMAGE SENSOR HAVING A GRID STRUCTURE WITH SMALLER TOP WIDTH THAN BOTTOM WIDTH | GARCES, NELSON Y | 2814 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 11, 2021 |
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