Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zinite Corporation is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units and a corresponding number of examiners, showing a varied technical and administrative spread for a small portfolio. ANGUIANO, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The presence of distinct examiners for each of the pending actions means that every case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics innovations are diverse enough to trigger different examination groups. Prosecution strategy must therefore be tailored to the specific nuances of each examiner rather than a unified approach to a single official. The use of multiple art units indicates that the portfolio covers a broad spectrum of the semiconductor field. This requires the company to maintain a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different standards of each unit.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGUIANO, MICHAEL | 1 | 51.9% | +19.9% |
| HENRY, CALEB E | 1 | 86.8% | +6.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539556 | GATE STACK FOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS | HENRY, CALEB E | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19274380 | STACKABLE AND SELF-ALIGNED TFT STRUCTURES | ANGUIANO, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19274380 | STACKABLE AND SELF-ALIGNED TFT STRUCTURES | ANGUIANO, MICHAEL | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 18539556 | GATE STACK FOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS | HENRY, CALEB E | 2818 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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