Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
151 pending office actions • 49 clients • 142 examiners • 72 art units • 0 of 151 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
IPro, PLLC has managed 6592 career applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm currently has 109 pending office actions and a resolved allowance rate pct of 91.36.
Prosecution at the firm involves an avg office actions per allowance of 2.0. This 2.0 figure provides a basis for practitioners to anticipate the number of examiner interactions required in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The 91.36 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the proportion of cases that reached allowance relative to the 6592 career applications. The 109 pending office actions represent the current cases awaiting a USPTO response.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 36 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. 36 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (3%) |
| §103 only | 57 (38%) |
| §102 only | 12 (8%) |
| §112 only | 9 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 67 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K | 3 | 67.9% | +4.8% |
| MA, CALVIN | 2 | 76.1% | +13.1% |
| NGUYEN, HAU H | 2 | 90.1% | +8.4% |
| CHEN, YU | 2 | 67.8% | +29.7% |
| NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 2 | 44.7% | +14.4% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 2 | — | — |
| CHOU, SHIH TSUN A | 2 | 77.5% | +16.4% |
| MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 2 | 23.3% | +10.0% |
| LIN, CHUN-NAN | 1 | 87.4% | +15.7% |
| SOTO LOPEZ, JOSE R | 1 | 69.0% | +3.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, HAU H | 42d |
| 19168248 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18992522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL EXPRESSION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, HAU H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17856267 | SMART DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS, SMART GATEWAY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NORTON, JENNIFER L | 37d overdue |
| 19063213 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, ARRAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 1d overdue |
| 18705920 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL | GREENE, JOSEPH L | 8d |
| 18724632 | SMALL SAMPLE FINE-TURNING METHOD AND SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 12d |
| 18701587 | BUFFER STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | VO, HAI | 14d |
| 17921545 | QUANTUM DOT LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE SAME, DISPLAY SUBSTRATES, AND DISPLAY APPARATUSES | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 20d |
| 17914946 | ARRAY SUBSTRATES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, DISPLAY PANELS AND DISPLAY DEVICES | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 21d |
| 17913787 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | ASHBAHIAN, ERIC K | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921545 | QUANTUM DOT LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE SAME, DISPLAY SUBSTRATES, AND DISPLAY APPARATUSES | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 20d |
| 17844102 | Aerosol generating device | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 29d |
| 19479290 | TOUCH ELECTRODE UNIT AND STRUCTURE, AND DISPLAY PANEL | MA, CALVIN | — |
| 19477437 | DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | MA, CALVIN | — |
| 19168248 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18834519 | DISPLAY PANEL AND STRETCHABLE DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | CHEN, YU | — |
| 18697998 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | — |
| 18579889 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT-EMITTING SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | CHOU, SHIH TSUN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2897 | 7 |
| 2893 | 5 |
| 2811 | 4 |
| 2629 | 3 |
| 2818 | 3 |
| 2891 | 3 |
| 2625 | 2 |
| 2621 | 2 |
| 2627 | 2 |
| 2611 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19479290 | TOUCH ELECTRODE UNIT AND STRUCTURE, AND DISPLAY PANEL | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | MA, CALVIN | 2629 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19477437 | DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | MA, CALVIN | 2629 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19168248 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. | LIN, CHUN-NAN | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19168235 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | SOTO LOPEZ, JOSE R | 2622 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19167810 | ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19159257 | DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | BUKOWSKI, KENNETH | 2621 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19286189 | DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | AZONGHA, SARDIS F | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19137256 | MEMORY CAPACITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19172463 | DISPLAY PANEL INCLUDING DISPLAY REGIONS WITH DIFFERENT PIXEL DENSITIES, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD OF THE DISPLAY PANEL | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 2625 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19169094 | PATH PLANNING METHOD, POOL CLEANING ROBOT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Shenzhen Aiper Intelligent Co., Ltd. | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19115715 | RANDOM WRITE INSTRUCTION PROCESSING METHOD, SMR HARD DISK, AND COMPUTER DEVICE | Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | SAIN, GAUTAM | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19063458 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE | Jiangxi Yibo E-Tech Co. Ltd. | ELEY, JESSICA L | 2852 | §102 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063213 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, ARRAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 2627 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19061393 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | GREEN, TRACIE Y | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| 19103265 | DISPLAY GRATING, 3D DISPLAY DEVICE, AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD | Guangdong Future Technology Co., Ltd. | CHUNG, DAVID Y | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 | |
| 19099934 | DEPTH DATA MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREOF | Shanghai Percipio Technology Limited | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 19037453 | DISPLAY ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | WILSON, ADRIAN S | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 | |
| 19034399 | METHOD FOR WALLPAPER SETTING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Nothing Technology Limited | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 | |
| 19023094 | BUFFER AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | Gigadevice Semiconductor Inc. | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2842 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994147 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R | 2624 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18993494 | FMCW LIDAR SYSTEM AND FMCW FREQUENCY-SWEEPING METHOD | Beijing Morelite Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | AHMED, JAMIL | 2877 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992964 | WARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENVIRONMENT DETECTION, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18992510 | BIG DATA CLUSTER DEPLOYMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | 2175 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18992529 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18992522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL EXPRESSION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | NGUYEN, HAU H | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19011881 | SYSTEM FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON MULTI-VIEW FEATURE FUSION NETWORK | Shandong Normal University | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 | |
| 18881264 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | MULARSKI, ROSS TERRY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 | |
| 18881258 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | PIERCE-WALKER, CHAZERAE AYODELE | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19006935 | UNIVERSAL VEHICLE-BODY FRONT END STRUCTURE AND VEHICLE BODY | ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD. | ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 | |
| 19001536 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT COMPARISON CIRCUIT | Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. | MEHARI, YEMANE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 | |
| 18989323 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER DEVICE | Future Technology (Xiangyang) Co., Ltd. | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18987044 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | Future Technology (Xiangyang) Co., Ltd. | WELCH, DAVID T | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18876956 | INTER-DEVICE POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | DU, ZONGHUA A | 2444 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18976909 | DIMMABLE PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | QURESHI, MARIAM | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| 18964772 | CONTROL CIRCUIT WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE STARTUP FUNCTION AND SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY | Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. | QUDDUS, NUSRAT | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 | |
| 18870044 | OUTDOOR CAMPING APPARATUS, CAMPING CART, AND FOLDABLE FRAME | Enwei Zhang | CAHN, DANIEL P | 3636 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18953200 | 3D IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, MOBILE DEVICE AND COMPUTER DEVICE | Guangdong Future Technology Co., Ltd. | CHU, RANDOLPH I | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 | |
| 18862033 | VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18917034 | CUTTER HEAD, GRASS CHOPPING STRUCTURE, AND LAWN MOWER | Changyao Innovation Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | BROWN, CLAUDE J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 | |
| 18856865 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND LASER DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH AN OPTICAL DEVICE | Limo GmbH | TRA, TUYEN Q | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 | |
| 18855489 | SLIDABLE AND ROLLABLE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | ASMAT UCEDA, MARTIN ANTONIO | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 | |
| 18850021 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | MENZ, DOUGLAS M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 | |
| 18829718 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A USER OF AN EVENT, FOR EXAMPLE IN THE EVENT OF A DISASTER | Fm Marketing GmbH | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18811929 | Oil Crystallization Promoter, Preparation Method Therefor and Use Thereof | Jiangnan University | ZILBERING, ASSAF | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 | |
| 18839831 | LIGHT-EMITTING ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY PANEL | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | NGUYEN, DUY T V | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18802071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | NGUYEN, HAU H | 2611 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18799605 | FMCW LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEM | Beijing Morelite Semiconductor Co., Ltd. | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 | |
| 18834519 | DISPLAY PANEL AND STRETCHABLE DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | CHEN, YU | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 | |
| 18833958 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | GREEN, TELLY D | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 | |
| 18783441 | SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE, SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE | Enkris Semiconductor (Wuxi), Ltd. | BISSELL, GERALD HENRY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial91.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ipro, Pllc were allowed, across 6,605 applications in USPTO records.
2.00 office actions per allowed application on average.
151 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 49 clients, before 142 examiners in 72 art units.