Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Perkins Coie LLP - Monolithic Power Systems handles Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics matters and has 10 pending office actions. The firm reports 828 career applications, creating a meaningful historical record for the active docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 97.08%, and the average office actions per allowance is 2.06. The rate describes outcomes among resolved applications, while the action average indicates the examination activity typically associated with allowance. For practitioners, these measures provide distinct information for evaluating the current workload and the firm’s recorded prosecution approach in semiconductor and circuit matters.
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 | 1 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (78%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 1 | 89.6% | +5.2% |
| LEE, JYE-JUNE | 1 | 84.9% | +3.6% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.5% | +24.8% |
| TIKU, SISAY G | 1 | 91.5% | +9.1% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.7% | +11.7% |
| MOODY, KYLE J | 1 | 90.6% | +7.7% |
| AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 1 | 79.6% | +4.6% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.4% | +5.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041022 | ACTIVE CLAMP FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH SAFE OPERATION | LEE, JYE-JUNE | — |
| 18934868 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH DUAL-OUTPUT AND METHOD THEREOF | MOODY, KYLE J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065826 | ISOLATED DRIVER AND AN ISOLATED DRIVING METHOD FOR DRIVING A POWER SWITCHING DEVICE | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | — |
| 19036794 | BUCK-BOOST REGULATOR WITH PASS THROUGH MODE AND THE METHOD THEREOF | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18961991 | RESONANT POWER CONVERTER CIRCUIT WITH ADAPTIVE ON-TIME CONTROL AND METHOD THEREOF | TIKU, SISAY G | — |
| 18962037 | ISOLATED SWITCHING CIRCUIT WITH SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION AND METHOD THEREOF | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18758888 | Switching Mode Power Supply with Improved Control Accuracy | AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | — |
| 18662063 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER, AND DRIVER AND DRIVING METHOD OF POWER SWITCHING DEVICE | ALMO, KHAREEM E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036794 | BUCK-BOOST REGULATOR WITH PASS THROUGH MODE AND THE METHOD THEREOF | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | — |
| 18962037 | ISOLATED SWITCHING CIRCUIT WITH SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION AND METHOD THEREOF | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Monolithic Power Systems | 9 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 7 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065826 | ISOLATED DRIVER AND AN ISOLATED DRIVING METHOD FOR DRIVING A POWER SWITCHING DEVICE | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19041022 | ACTIVE CLAMP FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH SAFE OPERATION | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | LEE, JYE-JUNE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19036794 | BUCK-BOOST REGULATOR WITH PASS THROUGH MODE AND THE METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18961991 | RESONANT POWER CONVERTER CIRCUIT WITH ADAPTIVE ON-TIME CONTROL AND METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | TIKU, SISAY G | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18962037 | ISOLATED SWITCHING CIRCUIT WITH SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION AND METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | COMBER, KEVIN J | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18934868 | POWER STAGE CIRCUIT WITH DUAL-OUTPUT AND METHOD THEREOF | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | MOODY, KYLE J | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18758888 | Switching Mode Power Supply with Improved Control Accuracy | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 2838 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18662063 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER, AND DRIVER AND DRIVING METHOD OF POWER SWITCHING DEVICE | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial97.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Perkins Coie LLP - Monolithic Power Systems were allowed, across 828 applications in USPTO records.
2.06 office actions per allowed application on average.
9 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 9 examiners in 3 art units.
