Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
21 pending office actions • 1 client • 21 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 16 (76%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (19%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | 1 | 56.0% | +21.5% |
| HARRISON, MONICA D | 1 | 91.7% | +2.7% |
| LEE, CHEUNG | 1 | 92.1% | +4.3% |
| NGUYEN, NIKI HOANG | 1 | 90.8% | +5.0% |
| KIM, SU C | 1 | 77.5% | -12.1% |
| TRAN, TONY | 1 | 70.5% | +33.8% |
| TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 94.5% | +2.0% |
| GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 1 | 72.4% | +20.9% |
| KOO, LAMONT B | 1 | 80.7% | +4.9% |
| INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 1 | 85.7% | +7.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505632 | GATE ISOLATION FEATURES | KOO, LAMONT B | 10d overdue |
| 18753293 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HARRISON, MONICA D | — |
| 18515779 | SURFACE OXIDATION LAYER FOR METAL VOIDING REDUCTION | TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18494253 | BACKSIDE ISOLATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898864 | Untitled | PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | — |
| 18397398 | REDUCTION OF METAL LOSS DURING GATE PATTERNING | TRAN, TONY | — |
| 18514410 | VIAS WITH SELECTED GRAIN DISTRIBUTION | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TSMC | 21 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 4 |
| 2818 | 3 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2899 | 2 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898864 | Untitled | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN | 1714 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18753293 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | HARRISON, MONICA D | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18424135 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | LEE, CHEUNG | 2812 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423734 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | NGUYEN, NIKI HOANG | 2818 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423745 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KIM, SU C | 2899 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18397398 | REDUCTION OF METAL LOSS DURING GATE PATTERNING | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | TRAN, TONY | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18515779 | SURFACE OXIDATION LAYER FOR METAL VOIDING REDUCTION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18514410 | VIAS WITH SELECTED GRAIN DISTRIBUTION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | GONDARENKO, NATALIA A | 2891 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18505632 | GATE ISOLATION FEATURES | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KOO, LAMONT B | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18494253 | BACKSIDE ISOLATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18491207 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FORMING DEVICES WITH LIDS | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | AHMADI, MOHSEN | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18467979 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | RODRIGUEZ VILLANU, SANDRA MILENA | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18455211 | REDUCED RESIDUE AT ETCHED STRUCTURE SIDEWALLS | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18360930 | METHODS FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING AND METHODS FOR FORMING AN INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18360486 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | SIPLING, KENNETH MARK | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18353691 | GATE HEIGHT OPTIMIZATION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | HOANG, TUAN A | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18186778 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | FAYETTE, NATHALIE RENEE | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18165754 | VIA WITH SACRIFICIAL STRESS BARRIER RING | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MOJADDEDI, OMAR F | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18165669 | ETCHING PROCESS WITH PROTECTED REGION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MCCUTCHEON, COLIN RUSSELL | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17898163 | POLISHING METROLOGY | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17808175 | ANISOTROPIC WET ETCHING IN PATTERNING | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MELLINGER, CORBYN DAVID | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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