Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. currently manages 10 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This workload is distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property spans multiple technical specializations. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, providing various examiner perspectives on the pending applications. This distribution suggests that the company must navigate different administrative requirements across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
WELLS, JAMES STEVEN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions currently assigned. This examiner's workload represents a portion of the 10 total pending office actions facing the portfolio. Because the matters are spread across the 8 distinct examiners and the 7 distinct art units, the company must manage multiple sets of examiner expectations simultaneously. For practitioners, this variety in the examiners means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific tendencies of each individual within the art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2 | 83.8% | +6.9% |
| WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 1 | 88.6% | +3.3% |
| WATTS, JEREMY DANIEL | 1 | 85.7% | +13.9% |
| BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 1 | 76.6% | +16.3% |
| TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 1 | 76.0% | +26.1% |
| NARAGHI, ALI | 1 | 86.4% | +5.1% |
| PETERSON, ERIK T | 1 | 76.5% | +11.0% |
| LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 1 | 75.4% | +34.5% |
| TRAN, THANH Y | 1 | 86.3% | +9.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799112 | BONDING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 12d |
| 17829182 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 34d |
| 18551987 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS, JEREMY DANIEL | — |
| 18259766 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | NARAGHI, ALI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528818 | MEMORY BLOCK AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 6d |
| 18017469 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 15d |
| 18275536 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODULE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | — |
| 18266528 | CHIP-TO-WAFER STACKING METHOD | PETERSON, ERIK T | — |
| 18086105 | METHOD FOR FORMING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATED THEREBY | TRAN, THANH Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18017469 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 15d |
| 18364921 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 41d |
| 18551987 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS, JEREMY DANIEL | — |
| 18275536 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODULE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | — |
| 18266528 | CHIP-TO-WAFER STACKING METHOD | PETERSON, ERIK T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 2 |
| 2813 | 2 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18528818 | MEMORY BLOCK AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | WELLS, JAMES STEVEN | 2825 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18551987 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS, JEREMY DANIEL | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18364921 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER | 2818 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18275536 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODULE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | TIVARUS, CRISTIAN ALEXANDRU | 2899 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18259766 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR | NARAGHI, ALI | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18266528 | CHIP-TO-WAFER STACKING METHOD | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18017469 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 1713 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18086105 | METHOD FOR FORMING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATED THEREBY | TRAN, THANH Y | 2817 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17799112 | BONDING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17829182 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
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