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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Will Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a matter. This indicates that the company's current active applications are being reviewed by different individuals.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct art units, meaning that each of the pending office actions is situated within a different specialized group at the USPTO. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending workload for the company.
Practitioners should note that with the distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the 2 pending actions, there is no overlap in the personnel or the units reviewing these matters. The semiconductor and optics technologies are being evaluated across different specialized classifications. Success for Will Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. depends on meeting the specific standards of PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN and the other examiner in their respective, separate art units.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 1 | 88.7% | +3.1% |
| AHMADI, MOHSEN | 1 | 86.8% | +9.7% |
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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 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 |
| 18073356 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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