Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among multiple examiners and 3 distinct art units. This ratio between actions and examiners indicates that each pending case is being evaluated by a unique individual, preventing any single examiner from having outsized influence over the portfolio.
JANSEN II, MICHAEL J is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the pending actions are spread across several units, the company cannot rely on a centralized prosecution strategy. Instead, each application requires a distinct approach tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved in the communications sector to ensure consistent progress across the different technical groups. Maintaining a presence across multiple art units within the communications field requires a robust management approach to ensure that arguments remain consistent.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.0% | +19.0% |
| SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 1 | 51.1% | -5.9% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886109 | DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18147186 | DISPLAY PANEL HAVING CONSISTENT THICKNESS AND DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886109 | DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18308502 | LIGHT-EMITTING SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL, BACKLIGHT MODULE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD | SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18147186 | DISPLAY PANEL HAVING CONSISTENT THICKNESS AND DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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