Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiamen Hongfa Electric Power Controls Co., Ltd. has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, despite being handled by 3 distinct examiners. ROJAS, BERNARD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 4 busiest examiner pending actions.
The fact that all actions reside within the single 1 distinct art unit indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's filings. Practitioners can expect a consistent technical baseline for these applications, even though 3 distinct examiners are involved. The heavy workload of 4 actions assigned to ROJAS, BERNARD suggests that this examiner's specific preferences and history will significantly impact the overall success of the portfolio's current prosecution phase. Because all the distinct examiners operate within the same art unit, the legal and technical hurdles are likely to be uniform across the 7 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROJAS, BERNARD | 4 | 83.0% | +7.8% |
| TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 2 | 71.9% | +9.0% |
| HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 1 | 86.8% | +1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668132 | RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | — |
| 18668128 | CONTACT PIECE STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC HOLDING RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015606 | DC RELAY FOR ANTI-SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT AND ARC EXTINCTION | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | — |
| 18884727 | RELAY | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | — |
| 18668124 | CONTACT PIECE STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC LATCHING RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | — |
| 18664436 | RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015606 | DC RELAY FOR ANTI-SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT AND ARC EXTINCTION | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18884727 | RELAY | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18668132 | RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2024 |
| 18668128 | CONTACT PIECE STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC HOLDING RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18668124 | CONTACT PIECE STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC LATCHING RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | 2837 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18664422 | RELAY | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18664436 | RELAY | ROJAS, BERNARD | 2837 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
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