Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
281 pending office actions • 14 clients • 250 examiners • 83 art units • 36 of 281 (13%) have an AI response strategy ready
Muir Patent Law, PLLC operates as a patent law firm in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The firm has managed 6544 career applications, achieving a high resolved allowance rate of 95.51 percent. Prosecution is highly efficient, averaging only 2.2 office actions per allowance.
There are 176 pending office actions currently active. The 2.2 average office actions per allowance suggests a very direct path to grant, indicating that the firm often reaches an allowance with minimal rounds of rejection. This performance is established across 6544 career applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area.
The 95.51 percent allowance rate demonstrates a strong track record of success. Practitioners can expect an effective prosecution process given the 2.2 average office actions per allowance. With 176 pending office actions, the firm maintains a significant active workload in this technical field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 57 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. 57 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 | 16 (6%) |
| §103 only | 104 (37%) |
| §102 only | 18 (6%) |
| §112 only | 9 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 122 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 3 | 88.0% | +14.3% |
| NADAV, ORI | 3 | 60.0% | +21.2% |
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2 | 79.3% | +11.6% |
| GONZALES, VICENTE ROLANDO | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LI, LARRY | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHOENHOLTZ, JOSEPH | 2 | 91.3% | -4.8% |
| ANYA, IGWE U | 2 | 85.0% | -3.7% |
| PRASAD, NEIL R | 2 | 85.4% | +9.8% |
| TRAN, TRANG Q | 2 | 81.4% | +7.2% |
| JUNGE, BRYAN R. | 2 | 58.0% | +9.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629497 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 31d overdue |
| 18294930 | Mass Spectrometer and Mass Spectrometry Method | LI, LARRY | 14d |
| 18208979 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | TRAN, TRANG Q | 28d |
| 18807028 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | GONZALES, VICENTE ROLANDO | — |
| 18779409 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | ANYA, IGWE U | — |
| 18765648 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
| 18736075 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
| 18731426 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | SCHOENHOLTZ, JOSEPH | — |
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 |
| 18098352 | X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYZER, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | KAY, DOUGLAS | 49d 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 |
| 18288350 | ANALYSIS DEVICE AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR ANALYSIS DEVICE | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 31d overdue |
| 18008050 | AUTOMATIC SAMPLE INJECTION DEVICE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 26d overdue |
| 18225768 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR WAFER PROTECTION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE USING THE SAME | RAHIM, NILUFA | 23d overdue |
| 18380848 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | BOULGHASSOUL, YOUNES | 15d 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 |
| 18629497 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 31d overdue |
| 19020416 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18880419 | Underwater Optical Wireless Communication System | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | — |
| 18764411 | Analysis Method and Composite Analysis Apparatus | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18509483 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NADAV, ORI | — |
| 18126395 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | NADAV, ORI | — |
| 17940323 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | NADAV, ORI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 10 |
| 2893 | 7 |
| 2815 | 7 |
| 2898 | 7 |
| 2877 | 6 |
| 1716 | 6 |
| 1718 | 6 |
| 2813 | 6 |
| 2897 | 5 |
| 2899 | 5 |
| 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 |
| 19121044 | Diagnosis Support Method, Diagnosis Support Program, and Diagnosis Support System | Shimadzu Corporation | CHOI, DAVID | 3684 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 18835064 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING COAXIAL CABLE | Shimadzu Corporation | LEE, EDMUND H | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 | |
| 18844791 | SPECTROSCOPIC DEVICE | Shimadzu Corporation | LYONS, MICHAEL A | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 | |
| 19185021 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KAISER, SYED M | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 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 | §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 | §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 | §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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2025 | |
| 19028372 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 2844 | §103 | 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. | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 19028249 | PHASED-ARRAY RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER AND METHODS OF OPERATION | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. | MOORE, WHITNEY | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 19021308 | FILM FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AHMED, SHEEBA | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 | |
| 19020416 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19019694 | ARTICLE TRANSFER AND STORAGE APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | AN, IG TAI | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 | |
| 19018089 | SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER PROCESSING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | PATEL, DHARTI HARIDAS | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 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 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 | |
| 19013890 | TANDEM U-SHAPED ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER AND ION MOBILITY ANALYSIS METHOD | Shimadzu Corporation | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 | |
| 19011724 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SANGHERA, JAS A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 | |
| 18880419 | Underwater Optical Wireless Communication System | Shimadzu Corporation | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | §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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 | |
| 19006759 | Ion Source | Shimadzu Corporation | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 | |
| 18880115 | Calibration Method, Analysis Method, Controller, and Analyzer | Osaka Institute Of Public Health | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | §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 |
| 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 | §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 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18972391 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | §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 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 | |
| 18964973 | TEST SOCKET FOR OPTICAL FAULT ISOLATION AND OPTICAL FAULT ISOLATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 | |
| 18965503 | Inspection Method and Inspection Device | Shimadzu Corporation | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 | |
| 18964283 | LINEAR REGULATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 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 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 | |
| 18958018 | CHIP EJECTOR APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | §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 | §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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18943216 | SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION FACILITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | FUJITA, KATRINA R | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 | |
| 18932957 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18931280 | MODULAR ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc. | ISMAIL, OMAR S | §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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 | |
| 18929001 | PLASMA ETCHING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CRAWFORD, JASON | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 | |
| 18928313 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER, MEMORY MODULE INCLUDING VOLTAGE CONVERTER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF VOLTAGE CONVERTER | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BASHAR, MOHAMMED A | 2824 | §103 | 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 |
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Start Free Trial95.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Muir Patent Law, Pllc were allowed, across 6,557 applications in USPTO records.
2.20 office actions per allowed application on average.
281 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 14 clients, before 250 examiners in 83 art units.