Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
147 pending office actions • 47 clients • 143 examiners • 89 art units • 0 of 147 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cooper Legal Group LLC has a prosecution history in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 7129 career applications. The firm has secured a resolved allowance rate of 90.14 percent, demonstrating success in obtaining patent grants for its clients. This performance metric highlights the firm's results in managing technical filings through to allowance.
Currently, the firm manages 106 pending office actions, indicating the volume of active prosecution. The firm averages 3.42 office actions per allowance, which provides a benchmark for the expected intensity of examiner interactions. With 7129 career applications and 106 pending office actions, the firm shows technical experience and current activity in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. These figures offer an overview of the firm's track record and its current operational focus. The 90.14 percent allowance rate provides a baseline for future prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 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. 43 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 | 23 (16%) |
| §103 only | 48 (33%) |
| §102 only | 8 (5%) |
| §112 only | 4 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 48 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINTERS, SEAN AYERS | 3 | 88.3% | +19.1% |
| ISAAC, STANETTA D | 2 | 85.8% | -36.1% |
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 2 | 66.1% | +35.3% |
| BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1 | 56.2% | +44.9% |
| MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 1 | 83.6% | +11.9% |
| SHAH, VAISHALI | 1 | 57.6% | +53.3% |
| HU, JENSEN | 1 | 68.2% | +27.0% |
| BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 1 | 82.5% | +16.5% |
| RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 1 | 81.6% | +31.0% |
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712738 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH METAL SILICIDE LAYER | ISAAC, STANETTA D | 3d overdue |
| 19275178 | DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER | KHAN, MASUD K | — |
| 18785091 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT 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 |
| 18442144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARY GENERATION | SHEN, SAMUEL | 50d 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 |
| 18227823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE RESOURCE UNDER HALF DUPLEX IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 8d overdue |
| 18411082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID FLOOR CONTROL | LEE, JENNIFER V | 5d overdue |
| 18658080 | PANTS FOR REPAIRING PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536480 | LIFT MECHANISM AND AIR SUPPLY DEVICE WITH LIFT MECHANISM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 12d |
| 19534865 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY WITHOUT CHARGING PORT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BUCHANAN, JACOB | — |
| 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 | 4 |
| 3688 | 3 |
| 2154 | 3 |
| 2858 | 3 |
| 3621 | 2 |
| 3673 | 2 |
| 2655 | 2 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 1718 | 2 |
| 3622 | 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 |
| 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 | |
| 19281998 | GRANULAR REPLICATION OF VOLUME SUBSETS | Net App, Inc. | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | §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 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 | |
| 19268733 | TWO-STATE TIME-ENRICHED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY CLUSTERING | Yahoo Assets LLC | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | §103 | 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 |
| 19238819 | KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION | Netapp Inc. | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 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 |
| 19093182 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | WEBB III, JAMES L | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 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 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| 19082131 | IDENTIFYING FRAUDULENT REQUESTS FOR CONTENT | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 | |
| 19076863 | IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | PARK, HYORIM NMN | §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 | §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 |
| 19068398 | FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY | Netapp, Inc. | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19068693 | Output Voltage Sense Protection Device and Method | Infineon Technologies Austria AG | TORRES-RIVERA, ALEX | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 | |
| 19066722 | ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SECURITY THROUGH INTEGRATION OF COMPONENT DATA | Infineon Technologies AG | ABYANEH, ALI S | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 | |
| 19061517 | Email Review System | Yahoo Assets LLC | JOO, JOSHUA | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| 19029599 | PREFETCHING KEYS FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION | Netapp, Inc. | OTTO, ALAN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 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 |
| 18989947 | TEXT CLASSIFICATION | Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. | CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A | §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 |
| 18874115 | INTER-TURN PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTER TRANSFORMER | State Grid Corporation Of China | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 | |
| 18869345 | BATHTUB WITH AROMATHERAPY DEVICE | Bains Ultra Inc. | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18848948 | SRV6 PACKET PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. | ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 | |
| 18891102 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18888389 | Force Sensing Device | Peratech IP Ltd. | HA, NGUYEN Q | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 | |
| 18887261 | Force Sensing Device | Peratech IP Ltd. | SHABMAN, MARK A | §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 | §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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 | |
| 18821641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFICATION MESSAGE TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Asus Technology Licensing Inc. | JAIN, RAJ K | 2411 | §112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18789786 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMATION THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | MANDALA, MICHELLE | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790728 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | PAYEN, MARVIN | §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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial90.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Cooper Legal Group, LLC were allowed, across 7,129 applications in USPTO records.
3.42 office actions per allowed application on average.
147 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 47 clients, before 143 examiners in 89 art units.