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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VISHAY SEMICONDUCTOR GMBH currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 pending office actions indicate the level of activity in the company's patent prosecution efforts. The work is distributed between 2 distinct examiners, which means the company addresses the specific concerns of 2 different officials. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the portfolio's progress is subject to different examination perspectives.
The company's pending matters are situated in 2 distinct art units. This involvement in 2 distinct art units suggests the technical scope within the semiconductors, circuits, and optics sectors. OLAMIT, JUSTIN N is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because OLAMIT, JUSTIN N is managing the 1 pending office action, this examiner is responsible for a portion of the company's active workload. The presence of the busiest examiner requires the company to manage its strategy between this official and the other examiner handling the remaining pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.0% | +9.4% |
| ULLAH, ELIAS | 1 | 85.0% | +7.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557843 | METHOD FOR TRIMMING THE LIGHT SENSITIVITY OF A PHOTOTRANSISTOR | ULLAH, ELIAS | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590507 | PRESSURE SENSOR WITH MOLDED SUBSTRATE | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18590507 | PRESSURE SENSOR WITH MOLDED SUBSTRATE | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18557843 | METHOD FOR TRIMMING THE LIGHT SENSITIVITY OF A PHOTOTRANSISTOR | ULLAH, ELIAS | 2893 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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