Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
X-Fab Global Services GmbH has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, ensuring a broad range of examiner reviews. This distribution means that the company's prosecution outcomes are not overly dependent on the tendencies of any single examiner. The variety of examiners involved may lead to different prosecution timelines and outcomes for the pending applications.
The prosecution is spread across 4 distinct art units. Van Thu T. Nguyen is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's pending applications are being reviewed by many different examiners across 4 distinct art units. This variety of reviewers requires the company to maintain a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to different examiner styles and technical focuses. Practitioners should be prepared for a diverse set of feedback across these multiple pending applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 1 | 82.9% | +6.4% |
| ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 1 | — | — |
| LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 1 | 82.3% | +15.3% |
| PETERSON, ERIK T | 1 | 76.5% | +11.0% |
| ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 1 | 62.3% | +6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770212 | Programmable Read-Only Memory Cell | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 26d |
| 18609890 | Photodiodes | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609426 | Photodiodes | PETERSON, ERIK T | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609890 | Photodiodes | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | — |
| 18609426 | Photodiodes | PETERSON, ERIK T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770212 | Programmable Read-Only Memory Cell | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18609943 | Light Sensitive Semiconductor Structures | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609890 | Photodiodes | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609426 | Photodiodes | PETERSON, ERIK T | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 17371622 | Semiconductor device for power electronics applications | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
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