Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zing Semiconductor Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This ensures that each of the 2 pending actions is handled by a separate examiner in a separate unit. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings in Chemistry & Materials are technically diverse enough to be classified into different specialized groups.
The busiest examiner, BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A, has 1 pending office action. This is the same number of actions as the other distinct examiner, meaning the 2 pending office actions are split evenly. The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by different specialized technical groups. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution of the 2 pending office actions will involve interacting with 2 distinct examiners who may have different interpretations of the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.1% | +16.3% |
| YU, YUECHUAN | 1 | 66.4% | +19.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532964 | EPITAXY SUSCEPTOR, EPITAXY GROWTH APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | YU, YUECHUAN | 33d |
| 18397872 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM OF CONTROLLING CRYSTAL GROWTH | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532964 | EPITAXY SUSCEPTOR, EPITAXY GROWTH APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | YU, YUECHUAN | 33d |
| 18397872 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM OF CONTROLLING CRYSTAL GROWTH | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18397872 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM OF CONTROLLING CRYSTAL GROWTH | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18532964 | EPITAXY SUSCEPTOR, EPITAXY GROWTH APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | YU, YUECHUAN | 1718 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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