Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (73%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, THOMAS T | 1 | 51.7% | +16.3% |
| AHMED, SHAMIM | 1 | 78.5% | +22.0% |
| ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 1 | 86.7% | +11.0% |
| INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 1 | 85.8% | +7.3% |
| SLUTSKER, JULIA | 1 | 77.0% | +12.6% |
| GARCES, NELSON Y | 1 | 80.2% | +2.7% |
| BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 1 | 93.9% | +0.4% |
| ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K | 1 | 66.9% | +6.1% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.4% | -12.1% |
| BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | 1 | 94.1% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17893736 | METHOD OF MAKING A PLURALITY OF 3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH ENHANCED MOBILITY AND CONDUCTIVITY | BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | 145d overdue |
| 18376359 | MULTI-MATERIAL CHUCK | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 43d overdue |
| 18313177 | SURFACE ENERGY MODIFICATION IN HYBRID BONDING | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 39d |
| 18367315 | METHOD OF SURFACE MODIFICATION FOR WAFER BONDING | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 41d |
| 18204081 | NON-PLANAR TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GARCES, NELSON Y | 48d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224940 | FORKSHEET SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 52d overdue |
| 18376359 | MULTI-MATERIAL CHUCK | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 43d overdue |
| 18424262 | SELECTIVE ETCHING IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | AHMED, SHAMIM | 1d overdue |
| 18433320 | DIRECT CURRENT SUPERPOSITION (DCS) FOR PROTECTION OF ORGANIC MANDREL DURING SPACER DEPOSITION | PHAM, THOMAS T | 27d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Electron | 11 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 2 |
| 2891 | 2 |
| 2814 | 2 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18433320 | DIRECT CURRENT SUPERPOSITION (DCS) FOR PROTECTION OF ORGANIC MANDREL DURING SPACER DEPOSITION | Tokyo Electron Limited | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18424262 | SELECTIVE ETCHING IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | Tokyo Electron Limited | AHMED, SHAMIM | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18376359 | MULTI-MATERIAL CHUCK | Tokyo Electron Limited | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18367315 | METHOD OF SURFACE MODIFICATION FOR WAFER BONDING | Tokyo Electron Limited | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18224940 | FORKSHEET SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME | Tokyo Electron Limited | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 2891 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18204081 | NON-PLANAR TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | Tokyo Electron Limited | GARCES, NELSON Y | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18313177 | SURFACE ENERGY MODIFICATION IN HYBRID BONDING | Tokyo Electron Limited | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17901783 | METHODS OF COMPACT CELL DESIGN FOR LOGIC APPLICATIONS | Tokyo Electron Limited | ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K | 2891 | Other | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17898104 | METHODS FOR FORMING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH ISOLATION STRUCTURES | Tokyo Electron Limited | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17893736 | METHOD OF MAKING A PLURALITY OF 3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH ENHANCED MOBILITY AND CONDUCTIVITY | Tokyo Electron Limited | BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | 2814 | §112 | Final Rejection | 145d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17667378 | ADVANCED 3D DEVICE ARCHITECTURE USING NANOSHEETS WITH 2D MATERIALS FOR SPEED ENHANCEMENT | Tokyo Electron Limited | PURVIS, SUE A | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2022 |
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