Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
87 pending office actions • 22 clients • 85 examiners • 55 art units • 0 of 87 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 138 patents granted in the last 365 days
NZ Carr Law Office reports 83 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and 1600 career applications. Its prosecution record includes a 93.62% resolved allowance rate and an average of 2.22 office actions per allowance.
The pending docket provides an immediate workload indicator, while the application history supplies a broader record for evaluating prosecution outcomes. The allowance rate and action average should be considered together: the former describes resolved outcomes, and the latter indicates the amount of office-action activity associated with allowances.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 5 (6%) |
| §103 only | 24 (28%) |
| §102 only | 5 (6%) |
| §112 only | 5 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 42 (48%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, TONG-HO | 2 | 95.3% | +0.7% |
| TRAN, TRANG Q | 2 | 81.4% | +7.2% |
| NAJI, YOUNES | 1 | 75.2% | +73.0% |
| PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 1 | 89.8% | +9.0% |
| LE, MICHAEL | 1 | 66.0% | +21.7% |
| CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 1 | 76.6% | +18.9% |
| SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | 1 | 47.7% | +28.6% |
| MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.9% | +11.5% |
| SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 1 | 88.9% | +13.0% |
| ZENATI, AMAL S | 1 | 79.8% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992559 | OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK UNIT, AND NETWORK SYSTEM | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | — |
| 18772124 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | KIM, TONG-HO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231320 | METHOD FOR FORMING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DEVICES FABRICATED THEREOF | TURNER, BRIAN | 15d |
| 18498031 | DUMMY DIES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | TRAN, TRANG Q | 21d |
| 18240033 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 27d |
| 18369099 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | NADAV, ORI | 30d |
| 18239999 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING NANOSHEET TRANSISTOR AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF | RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER | 83d |
| 19109589 | NETWORK SLICE CREATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | NAJI, YOUNES | — |
| 19108450 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | — |
| 19106243 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109589 | NETWORK SLICE CREATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | NAJI, YOUNES | — |
| 19066169 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS | LE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19106243 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | — |
| 19105788 | BENDING PORTION OF ENDOSCOPE AND THE ENDOSCOPE | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | — |
| 19105687 | CONTROLLABLE BENDING MECHANISM OF ENDOSCOPE AND THE ENDOSCOPE | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18992559 | OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK UNIT, AND NETWORK SYSTEM | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | — |
| 18992194 | METHOD FOR LIFTING SPEAKING BAN AT VIDEO CONFERENCE, AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ZENATI, AMAL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 6 |
| 2811 | 6 |
| 2812 | 4 |
| 2893 | 4 |
| 2817 | 3 |
| 2897 | 3 |
| 2818 | 3 |
| 2445 | 2 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 2899 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109589 | NETWORK SLICE CREATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | ZTE CORPORATION | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19108450 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | ZTE CORPORATION | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19066169 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Django Robotics Shenzhen Co., Ltd. | LE, MICHAEL | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19106243 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | ZTE CORPORATION | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19105788 | BENDING PORTION OF ENDOSCOPE AND THE ENDOSCOPE | Anqing Medical Co., Ltd. | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19105687 | CONTROLLABLE BENDING MECHANISM OF ENDOSCOPE AND THE ENDOSCOPE | Anqing Medical Co., Ltd. | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18992559 | OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK UNIT, AND NETWORK SYSTEM | ZTE CORPORATION | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18992194 | METHOD FOR LIFTING SPEAKING BAN AT VIDEO CONFERENCE, AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ZTE CORPORATION | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18880582 | PACKET GENERATION METHOD, PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | ZTE CORPORATION | DUONG, OANH | 2441 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18879461 | VIA HOLE STRUCTURE OF CIRCUIT BOARD, AND CIRCUIT BOARD | ZTE CORPORATION | MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18876664 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MATURE DENDRITIC CELLS | Lihpao Life Science Corp. | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18870354 | PHYSICAL LAYER SCHEDULING FOR EXTENDED REALITY APPLICATIONS | ZTE CORPORATION | CHERY, DADY | 2418 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18869276 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHODS, SENDING SERVER, RECEIVING SERVER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZTE CORPORATION | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 2445 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18868734 | System and method for CBG based multiple slot transmission | ZTE CORPORATION | SUNDARA, NICK ANON | 2479 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2024 |
| 18954493 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER PREDICTION USING VOICE AND SOUND | Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18864006 | LIPIDS, NANOPARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME AND USES THEREOF | Academia Sinica | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18905144 | WIRELESS SENSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | ZTE CORPORATION | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 | |
| 18848545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIDELINK OPERATION ON UNLICENSED SPECTRUM | ZTE CORPORATION | SAMARA, LOUIS | 2476 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18886022 | CHILD STROLLER APPARATUS | Wonderland Switzerland AG | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 3613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18885659 | PHASE DIFFERENCE FILM, POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE PHASE DIFFERENCE FILM | Chengdu Rayboch Material Technology Co., Ltd. | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2024 | |
| 18822340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MEDICAL DATA EXCHANGE AND MEDICAL CLAIM SETTLEMENT | Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | 3691 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2024 |
| 18839024 | RADIOFREQUENCY SCALPEL AND SYSTEM | Shanghai Cultiva Medical Device Co., Ltd. | DEMIE, TIGIST S | 3794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18800523 | MICROLENS ARRAY LAMINATE, OPTICAL DEVICE AND LIDAR SENSOR UNIT | Yk Solution Co. Ltd. | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18786740 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18786475 | INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | NELSON, JACOB THEODORE | 2815 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2024 |
| 18832865 | HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE BIOPSY | Shanghai Cultiva Medical Device Co., Ltd. | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18781008 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | TAYLOR, EARL N | 2896 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18779710 | INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | CHIU, TSZ K | 2898 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18778946 | DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | DIALLO, MAMADOU L | 2897 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2024 |
| 18778178 | CHILD BASSINET | Wonderland Switzerland AG | SUN, GEORGE | 3673 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18775457 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | DANG, PHUC T | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18772124 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KIM, TONG-HO | 2811 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2024 |
| 18772123 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES INCLUDING METAL GATE PROTECTION AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KIM, TONG-HO | 2811 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2024 |
| 18771652 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE INTEGRATING AIR GAPS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | GOODLING, DEVIN KIRK | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18765271 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | DINKE, BITEW A | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2024 |
| 18758180 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | PARKER, JOHN M | 2899 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18657842 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18705558 | CONTROL METHOD FOR TERMINAL DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZTE CORPORATION | HAQUE, ABUSAYEED M | 2466 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
| 18646964 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | ELLIOTT, DANIEL KURT | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 | |
| 18644188 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | LINDSEY, COLE LEON | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18644231 | INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | KIELIN, ERIK J | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18642872 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING NANOSTRUCTURE TRANSISTOR AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | SOWARD, IDA M | 2898 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18633337 | METHODS OF TREATING TUMORS BY USING MOLECULAR CONSTRUCT | Immunwork Inc. | JOHNSON, TIRONE DEREK | 1675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18627570 | METAL-INSULATOR-METAL DEVICE STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | CHOU, SHIH TSUN A | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18627507 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | WOODARD, AUSTIN TAYLOR | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18626386 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN | 1713 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18697750 | DATA OFFLOADING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZTE CORPORATION | CHANG, JUNGWON | 2454 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18611797 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP HAVING VIA TOWERS FOR POWER CONNECTION AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MANDALA, MICHELLE | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18690712 | SYNTHETIC COMPOUND, KIT COMPRISING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF | Taipei Veterans General Hospital | SHIAO, YIH-HORNG | 1691 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18598197 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MORA, ONASIS | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial93.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nz Carr Law Office were allowed, across 1,600 applications in USPTO records.
2.22 office actions per allowed application on average.
87 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 22 clients, before 85 examiners in 55 art units.
