Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiamen Hongfa Electrical Safety & Controls Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a highly focused patenting effort with no current diversification across different technical groups or examiners. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area is the sole field of activity for the pending office action.
HOMZA, LISA NHUNG is the busiest examiner with the pending office action. As the only examiner involved in the portfolio, HOMZA, LISA NHUNG's decisions will determine the immediate success of the company's patent filings. The presence of a single art unit suggests a specific technical focus within electrical safety and controls. For this company, the pending matter represents the entirety of their current interaction with the USPTO.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474360 | CONTACTOR AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18474360 | CONTACTOR AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialXiamen Hongfa Electrical Safety & Controls Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lisa Nhung Homza has the most, with 1 of Xiamen Hongfa Electrical Safety & Controls Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
