Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Borchers, Hall, Purks & Wall, PLLC works in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and has 9 pending office actions. Its career record includes 118 applications, providing a defined historical base for reviewing prosecution in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 85.71%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 3.89. These figures give practitioners separate measures of reported resolved outcomes and the prosecution activity associated with reaching an allowance.
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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | 1 | 76.9% | +38.6% |
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| CHEN, XUEMEI G | 1 | 77.1% | +25.6% |
| SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 1 | 82.8% | +18.1% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.6% | +38.8% |
| LE, JOHN H | 1 | 87.7% | +7.0% |
| KHARE, ATUL P | 1 | 54.8% | +72.3% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 59.0% | +40.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | KHARE, ATUL P | 56d |
| 18874009 | RADAR MARKER | GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | — |
| 18849601 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18699642 | BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION METHOD | LE, JOHN H | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | KHARE, ATUL P | 56d |
| 18874009 | RADAR MARKER | GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | — |
| 18849601 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18638962 | AIRFLOW OPTIMIZATION DEVICES FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING, AND RELATED SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS, AND METHODS | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — |
| 17925466 | ALLOY TOOL BIT TWIST DRILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss | 2 |
| Altavo GmbH | 1 |
| CODESCENE AB | 1 |
| Professional Asic Services LLC | 1 |
| TWAICE Technologies GmbH | 1 |
| Dyemansion GmbH | 1 |
| Shandong Old Roughneck Machinery Technology Co. Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874009 | RADAR MARKER | Altavo GmbH | GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | 3648 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18849601 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY | Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH | CHEN, XUEMEI G | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | Codescene AB | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 2193 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18638962 | AIRFLOW OPTIMIZATION DEVICES FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING, AND RELATED SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS, AND METHODS | Professional Asic Services LLC | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18699642 | BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION METHOD | Twaice Technologies GmbH | LE, JOHN H | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | Dyemansion GmbH | KHARE, ATUL P | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 17925466 | ALLOY TOOL BIT TWIST DRILL | Shandong Old Roughneck Machinery Technology Co. Ltd. | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial85.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Borchers, Hall, Purks & Wall, Pllc were allowed, across 118 applications in USPTO records.
3.89 office actions per allowed application on average.
8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 7 clients, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.
