Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zpe Systems Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in a single art unit. This represents a very narrow and focused prosecution footprint, where all current efforts are directed toward a single application.
Ninos Donabed is the busiest examiner for the company, with the pending office action under their supervision. This represents the entirety of the company's current pending prosecution workload. The progress of the company's intellectual property in the semiconductor space is currently tied to the resolution of this one specific case.
For practitioners, the focus on a single examiner and art unit means that the prosecution strategy can be highly tailored to the specific feedback received. There is no need to coordinate between different examiner styles or art unit policies. However, the success of the active portfolio depends entirely on the outcome of the pending action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONABED, NINOS | 1 | 75.2% | +64.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001596 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) PORT CONTROL | DONABED, NINOS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001596 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) PORT CONTROL | DONABED, NINOS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001596 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) PORT CONTROL | DONABED, NINOS | 2841 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZpe Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ninos Donabed has the most, with 1 of Zpe Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
