Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
130 pending office actions • 37 clients • 126 examiners • 95 art units • 0 of 130 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cooper Legal Group LLC focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The profile shows 137 pending office actions and 7161 career applications, combining an active current docket with a sizeable historical prosecution record. This scale supports structured docket segmentation and close tracking of response deadlines across technically varied matters.
The resolved allowance rate is 90.07%, and the average is 3.42 office actions per allowance. The allowance result indicates that most resolved matters in the record reached allowance, although the average shows that several examination exchanges may still be required. Practitioners should pair the favorable outcome measure with claim-specific review of matters approaching resolution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 20 (15%) |
| §103 only | 43 (33%) |
| §102 only | 9 (7%) |
| §112 only | 3 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 41 (32%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3 | 85.8% | -36.0% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 2 | 88.7% | +17.9% |
| BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1 | 56.1% | +44.7% |
| SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 1 | 57.9% | +56.1% |
| MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 1 | 83.6% | +11.9% |
| SHAH, VAISHALI | 1 | 57.4% | +52.9% |
| HU, JENSEN | 1 | 68.1% | +27.3% |
| BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 1 | 82.5% | +16.5% |
| RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 1 | 81.6% | +31.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712738 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH METAL SILICIDE LAYER | ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3d overdue |
| 18787153 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF FORMING | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
| 18785091 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — |
| 18716534 | PHOTODETECTOR | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
| 18654173 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING | ISAAC, STANETTA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075467 | PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION | CAO, PHUONG THAO | 51d overdue |
| 18135204 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE SIDELINK TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | HARLEY, JASON A | 42d overdue |
| 18206876 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING | ZHONG, XIN Y | 26d overdue |
| 17853543 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE HAVING CONTACT PLUG | ZHU, SHENG-BAI | 22d overdue |
| 18411082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID FLOOR CONTROL | LEE, JENNIFER V | 5d overdue |
| 18277990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT CLOSING | GERTH, KATIE L | 3d overdue |
| 18627500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO QUERIES | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 13d |
| 19096560 | STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS | HOANG, HAU HAI | 20d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19534865 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY WITHOUT CHARGING PORT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BUCHANAN, JACOB | — |
| 19399749 | VARIABLE ANTI-COUNTERFEITING METHOD, SYSTEM, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR A PRODUCT SALES TERMINAL | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | — |
| 19386648 | TOUCH ASSEMBLY | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | — |
| 19329294 | MIRRORING OBJECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS WITH DIFFERENT DATA LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS | SHAH, VAISHALI | — |
| 19326031 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HU, JENSEN | — |
| 19296791 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | — |
| 19281998 | GRANULAR REPLICATION OF VOLUME SUBSETS | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | — |
| 18787593 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING | WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 5 |
| 2812 | 5 |
| 2898 | 4 |
| 3688 | 3 |
| 2154 | 3 |
| 3673 | 3 |
| 2899 | 3 |
| 3622 | 3 |
| 2169 | 2 |
| 2658 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19534865 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY WITHOUT CHARGING PORT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Hamedata Technology Co., Limited | BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19399749 | VARIABLE ANTI-COUNTERFEITING METHOD, SYSTEM, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR A PRODUCT SALES TERMINAL | Foshan Yuhe Technology Co., Ltd. | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
| 19386648 | TOUCH ASSEMBLY | Tpk Glass Solutions (Xiamen) Inc. | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 2622 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19329294 | MIRRORING OBJECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS WITH DIFFERENT DATA LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS | Netapp Inc. | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19326031 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | HU, JENSEN | 2169 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19296791 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | Netapp Inc. | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19281998 | GRANULAR REPLICATION OF VOLUME SUBSETS | Net App, Inc. | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 2169 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19275178 | DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER | Netapp, Inc. | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19267802 | JOURNAL REPLAY OPTIMIZATION | Netapp, Inc. | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 2135 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19246636 | COMBINING VECTORS OUTPUT BY MULTIPLE DIFFERENT MECHANISMS FOR CONTENT ITEM RETRIEVAL | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 3688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19096560 | STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS | Netapp, Inc. | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19094923 | SNAPSHOT CREATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION | Netapp, Inc. | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19093146 | EMOTION CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | KIM, ETHAN DANIEL | 2658 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19082294 | ASSEMBLED DOOR AND WINDOW FRAME PROFILE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | Guiyu Chang | DEMUREN, BABAJIDE A | 3633 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19082131 | IDENTIFYING FRAUDULENT REQUESTS FOR CONTENT | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN | 2494 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19076863 | IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | PARK, HYORIM NMN | 2615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19073279 | FULL-UNIT LIFTIING METHOD FOR QUAYSIDE CONTAINER CRANE | Nanjing Port-Machinery & Heavy-Industry Manufacture Co., Ltd. | VU, STEPHEN A | 3654 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19071835 | METAL MESH TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE | Tpk Advanced Solutions Inc. | MISHLER, ROBIN J | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19068693 | Output Voltage Sense Protection Device and Method | Infineon Technologies Austria AG | TORRES-RIVERA, ALEX | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19068398 | FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY | Netapp, Inc. | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19066722 | ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SECURITY THROUGH INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT DATA | Infineon Technologies AG | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19061517 | Email Review System | Yahoo Assets LLC | JOO, JOSHUA | 2445 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19099550 | EAS SEARCH METHOD AND APPARATUS, RELATED FUNCTIONS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 2459 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19021330 | COLLATING ANONYMIZED DATA | Fitfile Group Limited | KIM, TAE K | 2496 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19008386 | EVALUATING EMAIL ACTIVITY | Yahoo Assets LLC | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18991823 | AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18989947 | TEXT CLASSIFICATION | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876778 | CONNECTING MEMBER FOR BED FRAME AND BED FRAME | Zinus Inc. | HARE, DAVID R | 3673 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18982552 | COORDINATING SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE FILE SYSTEMS | Netapp Inc. | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874603 | CONNECTING MECHANISM FOR ADJUSTABLE BED FRAME AND ADJUSTABLE BED FRAME | Zinus Inc. | BAILEY, AMANDA LEE | 3673 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874115 | INTER-TURN PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTER TRANSFORMER | State Grid Corporation Of China | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 2116 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18964273 | INJECTION ATTACK DETECTION | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18952719 | MULTIPLE LAYER DUAL PORT MEMORY CELL MANUFACTURING METHOD | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY | 2824 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18951826 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION AND ANSWER GENERATION ON SEARCH QUERIES | Yahoo Assets LLC | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18915263 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | VU, VU A | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 | |
| 18892714 | ROAD BOUNDARY DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | HUBER, MELANIE GRACE | 3668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18888389 | Force Sensing Device | Peratech IP Ltd. | HA, NGUYEN Q | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18887261 | Force Sensing Device | Peratech IP Ltd. | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18846402 | POWER GRID REAL-TIME SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | China Electric Power Research Institute | KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18829238 | PERFORMING ENTITY ACTIONS USING EMAIL INTERFACES | Yahoo Assets LLC | CHISM, STEVEN R | 3692 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18828089 | RECOVERY MECHANISM WITH SELECTIVE ORDERING AND CONCURRENT OPERATIONS | Netapp, Inc. | EHNE, CHARLES | 2113 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18843730 | SMART CUP HOLDER AND VEHICLE | BEIJING CHEHEJIA AUTOMOBILE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18816615 | BOLLARD HOLDER | Preformed Line Products Co. | SMITH, NKEISHA | 3632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18808430 | POLISHING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18789786 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMATION THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | MANDALA, MICHELLE | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18789812 | WAFER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TREATING WAFER | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790728 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | PAYEN, MARVIN | 2899 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18789467 | MIDDLE-END-OF-LINE STRAP FOR STANDARD CELL | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | 2899 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18786652 | Search Query Generation Based Upon Received Text | Yahoo Assets LLC | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18787153 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF FORMING | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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130 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 37 clients, before 126 examiners in 95 art units.
