Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Yuezhou Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics (Shaoxing) Corp. operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This alignment indicates a very focused prosecution effort in the semiconductor field, with no active cases currently spread across other units.
MAI, ANH D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's immediate success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector hinges on the outcome of this 1 pending office action. The prosecution strategy is currently not diversified across multiple examiners.
For practitioners, this data shows that the company's interaction with the USPTO is centralized. The involvement of MAI, ANH D as the sole examiner means that the company must address the specific technical requirements of 1 distinct art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending workload represents the total active docket, requiring a targeted approach to this specific examination process to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, ANH D | 1 | 37.7% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264045 | MOSFET DEVICE HAVING A DEEP WELL OF FIRST CONDUCTIVE TYPE FORMED UNDER A BASE REGION OF FIRST CONDUCTIVE TYPE IN A SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE AND A METHOD THEREFOR | MAI, ANH D | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18264045 | MOSFET DEVICE HAVING A DEEP WELL OF FIRST CONDUCTIVE TYPE FORMED UNDER A BASE REGION OF FIRST CONDUCTIVE TYPE IN A SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE AND A METHOD THEREFOR | MAI, ANH D | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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