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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
VISIC TECHNOLOGIES LTD. operates a patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, currently featuring 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's filings are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office. This separation suggests that the pending matters may involve distinct technical sub-specialties within the broader semiconductor field.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending action is under the review of a different individual. STEVEN T SAWYER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. With the workload spread across multiple examiners and art units, the company faces a decentralized prosecution environment where each matter requires an independent tactical approach. The use of the 2 distinct art units further implies that the portfolio covers a range of technical subjects that require different specialized knowledge from the examining corps.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAWYER, STEVEN T | 1 | 72.5% | +30.5% |
| KAO, SOPHIA WEI-CHUN | 1 | 95.9% | +5.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18457362 | LOW ON-RESISTANCE HIGH POWER SWITCH | KAO, SOPHIA WEI-CHUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878878 | SMALL FOOTPRINT POWER SWITCH | SAWYER, STEVEN T | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878878 | SMALL FOOTPRINT POWER SWITCH | SAWYER, STEVEN T | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 |
| 18457362 | LOW ON-RESISTANCE HIGH POWER SWITCH | KAO, SOPHIA WEI-CHUN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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