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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhuhai Yanqi Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is currently assigned to examiner CHEN, SOPHIA S, who is also designated as the busiest examiner with 1 pending case. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit and involves only 1 distinct examiner.
Because the entire active portfolio consists of this single pending matter, the outcome is entirely dependent on the specific interpretation of CHEN, SOPHIA S. There are no other active cases to provide a baseline for examiner behavior or art unit trends. The focus for this portfolio remains narrow, as it operates within only 1 distinct art unit at this time.
Practitioners should note that the current workload represents the totality of the company's engagement with the USPTO in this technology area. The examiner will have a decisive impact on the immediate intellectual property position of the firm. Without additional filings or different examiners to compare against, the strategy must be tailored exclusively to the feedback received from the individual currently reviewing the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, SOPHIA S | 1 | 95.8% | +4.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300953 | DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE | CHEN, SOPHIA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300953 | DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE | CHEN, SOPHIA S | 2852 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialZhuhai Yanqi Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sophia S Chen has the most, with 1 of Zhuhai Yanqi Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.