Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
266 pending office actions • 12 clients • 242 examiners • 103 art units • 33 of 266 (12%) have an AI response strategy ready
Muir Patent Law, PLLC has 262 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, with 6579 career applications. The profile reflects a substantial prosecution practice and an active docket in a technically specialized area.
The resolved allowance rate is 95.56%, and the average is 2.21 office actions per allowance. These figures show a high allowance result within the reported resolved matters, with allowances reached after an average involving multiple office actions.
For patent practitioners, the combination supports attention to both technical prosecution depth and docket capacity. The historical application volume provides context for the outcome measures, while the pending-action total indicates continuing examination activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 51 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. 51 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 | 6 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 15 (6%) |
| §103 only | 92 (35%) |
| §102 only | 19 (7%) |
| §112 only | 11 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 117 (44%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2 | 79.4% | +11.5% |
| SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 2 | 88.9% | +13.0% |
| DYKES, LAURA M | 2 | 66.2% | +26.6% |
| OZDEN, ILKER NMN | 2 | 83.3% | +25.9% |
| PRASAD, NEIL R | 2 | 85.5% | +9.6% |
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2 | 72.3% | +18.4% |
| TRAN, TRANG Q | 2 | 81.4% | +7.2% |
| HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 2 | 92.7% | +4.4% |
| CHEN, DAVID Z | 2 | 45.0% | +50.2% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 2 | 44.5% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18208979 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | TRAN, TRANG Q | 28d |
| 18378182 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HATFIELD, MARSHALL MU-NUO | 69d |
| 18888158 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | — |
| 18765648 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
| 18736075 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370828 | RF-Photonic Antennas and Arrays, Receivers, Transmitters, Transceivers, Components, and Related Methods | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 211d overdue |
| 18691356 | Image Pick-Up System and Image Pick-Up Method | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 45d overdue |
| 18586034 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 44d overdue |
| 18231341 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE COMPRISING THE SAME | KOLB, THADDEUS J | 26d overdue |
| 18008050 | AUTOMATIC SAMPLE INJECTION DEVICE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 26d overdue |
| 17742667 | COMPOUND FOR FORMING HARDMASK, HARDMASK COMPOSITION INCLUDING THE COMPOUND, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE USING THE HARDMASK COMPOSITION | DU, SURBHI M | 10d overdue |
| 17827751 | WIRING SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE INCLUDING THE SAME | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 9d overdue |
| 18226606 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370828 | RF-Photonic Antennas and Arrays, Receivers, Transmitters, Transceivers, Components, and Related Methods | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 211d overdue |
| 19020416 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18880419 | Underwater Optical Wireless Communication System | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | — |
| 18922506 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | DYKES, LAURA M | — |
| 18888158 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | — |
| 18764411 | Analysis Method and Composite Analysis Apparatus | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18744657 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
| 18666967 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 16 |
| 2898 | 10 |
| 2897 | 10 |
| 2817 | 9 |
| 2815 | 9 |
| 2877 | 7 |
| 3723 | 7 |
| 2812 | 7 |
| 2892 | 7 |
| 2858 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19324878 | SUBSTRATE TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH CHARGING FUNCTION | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | JOHNSON, KYLE T | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19304965 | METHOD FOR OPERATING SERVER CONTROLLER, SERVER CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SERVER | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHMED, ZUBAIR | 2132 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 18835064 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING COAXIAL CABLE | Shimadzu Corporation | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 18844791 | SPECTROSCOPIC DEVICE | Shimadzu Corporation | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 18703774 | BIOMAGNETISM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | Shimadzu Corporation | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19120667 | Method for Charging Refrigerant into Heat Transferring Apparatus and Refrigerant-Charging Control Apparatus for Heat Transferring Apparatus | Shimadzu Corporation | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19176095 | STORAGE DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE STORAGE DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | RUIZ, ARACELIS | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18873515 | Advice Apparatus, Advice Method, Advice Program, and Advice System | Shimadzu Corporation | BORISSOV, IGOR N | 3685 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19082766 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH 3X3 ARRAY PIXELS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | TABA, MONICA TERESA | 2878 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19070469 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HARRIS, DOROTHY H | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19037127 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KING, DANIEL JOHN | 2827 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2025 |
| 19037138 | MEMORY DEVICE WHICH HAS OPTIMAL REFERENCE RESISTANCE VALUE ACCORDING TO I/O UNIT | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS | 2825 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2025 |
| 19028249 | PHASED-ARRAY RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER AND METHODS OF OPERATION | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. | MOORE, WHITNEY | 3646 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026794 | ETCHANT COMPOSITION FOR ETCHING SILICON GERMANIUM FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE BY USING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19021308 | FILM FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19019762 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | PERRY, MONICA L | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 | |
| 19020416 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19018880 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MAXIMUM TRANSITION AVOIDANCE AND DIRECT CURRENT (DC)-BALANCED AND RUN-LENGTH LIMITED CODES | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19018089 | SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER PROCESSING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | PATEL, DHARTI HARIDAS | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19013890 | TANDEM U-SHAPED ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER AND ION MOBILITY ANALYSIS METHOD | Shimadzu Corporation | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19011724 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SANGHERA, JAS A | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19006759 | Ion Source | Shimadzu Corporation | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18880419 | Underwater Optical Wireless Communication System | Shimadzu Corporation | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 2634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19006747 | SURGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT, POWER SUPPLY DEVICE USING SAME, AND LED ILLUMINATION DEVICE | Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. | BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN | 2838 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18880115 | Calibration Method, Analysis Method, Controller, and Analyzer | Osaka Institute Of Public Health | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005349 | SUBSTRATE SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BUI, LUAN KIM | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19003663 | MEMORY DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | RADKE, JAY W | 2827 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19002344 | Management System, Server, Method, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium | Shimadzu Corporation | WANG, YUEHAN | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18984160 | MEMORY DEVICE PROVIDING COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY, OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KRIEGER, JONAH C | 2133 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | AI Ready | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18981876 | IMAGE SENSOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 7d | AI Ready | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18975387 | CARRIAGE DRIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Semes Co., Ltd. | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18972079 | MEMORY DEVICE HAVING ROW DECODER ARRAY ARCHITECTURE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HO, HOAI V | 2827 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18972391 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18969550 | Distribution of Optical Local-Oscillator Comb for Spectral Channelizing of RF Signal | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. | BELLO, AGUSTIN | 2635 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18965503 | Inspection Method and Inspection Device | Shimadzu Corporation | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18964973 | TEST SOCKET FOR OPTICAL FAULT ISOLATION AND OPTICAL FAULT ISOLATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18963602 | MEMORY EXPANDER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE MEMORY EXPANDER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | FAAL, BABOUCARR | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18959770 | WAFER CLEANING SYSTEM | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CORMIER, DAVID G | 1711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18958018 | CHIP EJECTOR APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | 3655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18958240 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BEGUM, SULTANA | 2824 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18950407 | CARRIER STORAGE DEVICE, CARRIER STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING CARRIER | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHADI, ELIA | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18950632 | IMAGE SENSOR AND OPERATING METHOD OF IMAGE SENSOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | TREHAN, AKSHAY | 2639 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18943216 | SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION FACILITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18931280 | MODULAR ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. | ISMAIL, OMAR S | 2635 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18930619 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND UNDERWATER OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD | Shimadzu Corporation | DELA ROSA-FRIO, JACOB ETHAN | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18929001 | PLASMA ETCHING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CRAWFORD, JASON | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18925132 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925220 | IMAGE SENSOR AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL | 2639 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | AI Ready | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925691 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 2673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18924443 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING SLURRY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHMED, SHAMIM | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial95.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Muir Patent Law, Pllc were allowed, across 6,579 applications in USPTO records.
2.21 office actions per allowed application on average.
266 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 12 clients, before 242 examiners in 103 art units.
