Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 1 client • 12 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 56 patents granted in the last 365 days
Perkins Coie LLP - Monolithic Power Systems demonstrates high efficiency in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. With 878 career applications, the firm has secured a resolved allowance rate of 97.25 percent. This high rate of success is paired with an average of 2.06 office actions per allowance, suggesting a streamlined path from filing to grant.
There are 10 pending office actions currently active. The 97.25 percent allowance rate reflects a very high probability of success for applications in this portfolio. The 2.06 average office actions per allowance is a key metric for predicting prosecution timelines and costs. The 878 career applications provide a substantial data set for evaluating these performance metrics.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (8%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (83%) |
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 | 89.5% | +5.3% |
| LEE, JYE-JUNE | 1 | 84.9% | +3.5% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.7% | +16.2% |
| ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 81.4% | +24.9% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| TIKU, SISAY G | 1 | 91.4% | +9.2% |
| MOODY, KYLE J | 1 | 90.4% | +7.9% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 1 | 83.6% | +7.5% |
| AHMAD, SHAHZEB K | 1 | 79.7% | +4.2% |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733531 | SWITCHING CONVERTER WITH REDUCED POWER LOSS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 2d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 19002433 | OPERATING FREQUENCY CONTROL FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18961991 | RESONANT POWER CONVERTER CIRCUIT WITH ADAPTIVE ON-TIME CONTROL AND METHOD THEREOF | TIKU, SISAY G | — |
| 18806689 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | TRAN, NGUYEN | — |
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 4 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 | — |
| 19002433 | OPERATING FREQUENCY CONTROL FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 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 | 12 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 3 |
| 2844 | 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 | §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 | §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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 | |
| 19002433 | OPERATING FREQUENCY CONTROL FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2844 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18981082 | LOOP CONTROL METHODOLOGY AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SWITCHING CONVERTER | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 | |
| 18962037 | ISOLATED SWITCHING CIRCUIT WITH SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION AND METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | COMBER, KEVIN J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 | |
| 18961991 | RESONANT POWER CONVERTER CIRCUIT WITH ADAPTIVE ON-TIME CONTROL AND METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | TIKU, SISAY G | §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 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 | |
| 18806689 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | TRAN, NGUYEN | 2838 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 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 |
| 18733531 | SWITCHING CONVERTER WITH REDUCED POWER LOSS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 04, 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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