Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 clients • 10 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
LIU & LIU has a career history of 1725 applications, with a primary focus on the Semiconductors, Circuits and Optics technology area. There are currently 7 pending office actions under its management. The 1725 career applications establish the firm's experience in semiconductor prosecution.
The firm's resolved allowance rate stands at 87.43 percent. It averages 3.17 office actions per allowance to reach a successful grant. This 3.17 average office actions per allowance reflects the typical prosecution cycle for the firm. The 87.43 percent allowance rate provides a metric of its effectiveness in the Semiconductors, Circuits and Optics sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.0% | +39.5% |
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
| TURNER, SONJI | 1 | 73.8% | +20.1% |
| MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | 1 | — | — |
| MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 1 | 89.4% | +10.4% |
| TSO, EDWARD H | 1 | 87.0% | +6.6% |
| CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 1 | 83.3% | +30.0% |
| FAN, SU JYA | 1 | 75.9% | +11.1% |
| ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA | 1 | 73.6% | +20.7% |
| LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 1 | 82.3% | +15.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18149029 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 26d |
| 18491713 | CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914626 | INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 2d overdue |
| 18480385 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FAN, SU JYA | 34d |
| 18868773 | INSERTION INSTRUMENTS | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18686391 | SEPARATOR DEVICE | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18431627 | CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE IN CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | — |
| 18561505 | BIPOLAR STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | TSO, EDWARD 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914626 | INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 2d overdue |
| 18149029 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 26d |
| 18480385 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | FAN, SU JYA | 34d |
| 18868773 | INSERTION INSTRUMENTS | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18686391 | SEPARATOR DEVICE | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18431627 | CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE IN CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | — |
| 18491713 | CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | — |
| 18278392 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCASING A FILTER UNIT AND/OR SEPARATION UNIT | ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TSMC | 5 |
| Axis Spine Technologies | 2 |
| Neufilter GmbH | 2 |
| COMMEO GMBH | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 2 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868773 | INSERTION INSTRUMENTS | Axis Spine Technologies Ltd. | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 | |
| 18914626 | INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES | Axis Spine Technologies Ltd. | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18686391 | SEPARATOR DEVICE | Neufilter GmbH | TURNER, SONJI | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 | |
| 18751148 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Xintec Inc. | MOHAMED-ALY, KAREEM M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 | |
| 18431627 | CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE IN CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | Xintec Inc. | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18561505 | BIPOLAR STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | Commeo GmbH | TSO, EDWARD H | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 | |
| 18491713 | CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | Xintec Inc. | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18480385 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Xintec Inc. | FAN, SU JYA | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18278392 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCASING A FILTER UNIT AND/OR SEPARATION UNIT | Neufilter GmbH | ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA | 1776 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18149029 | CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Xintec Inc. | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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