Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Will Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This level of activity indicates a focused effort to protect specialized electronic and optical innovations. The 3 pending actions suggest a deliberate and controlled approach to patent prosecution in these high-tech fields.
The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This 1:1 ratio between pending actions and examiners indicates that each matter is being handled independently by a different individual in a different administrative section. This structure prevents any single examiner from having a dominant influence over the company's current Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio.
PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner only manages 1 of the 3 total actions, the workload is evenly distributed. Practitioners must therefore prepare for 3 distinct examination styles across the 3 art units to successfully navigate the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 1 | 88.7% | +3.1% |
| ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 64.6% | +20.9% |
| AHMADI, MOHSEN | 1 | 86.9% | +9.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886019 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 37d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18073356 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570253 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SHIELDED GATE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE, AND SHIELDED GATE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886019 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2849 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18570253 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SHIELDED GATE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE, AND SHIELDED GATE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 2893 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18073356 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWill Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel Calrissian Puentes has the most, with 1 of Will Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
