Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
282 pending office actions • 99 clients • 267 examiners • 124 art units • 0 of 282 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WPAT, PC has a large portfolio of 17359 career applications in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 90.02 percent. It averages 2.65 office actions per allowance. There are 199 pending office actions currently in progress.
The firm's 90.02 percent allowance rate is a significant success metric for the 17359 career applications. The average of 2.65 office actions per allowance suggests an efficient prosecution strategy. The 199 pending office actions are fewer than the 17359 career applications already handled by the firm.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 67 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. 67 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 | 3 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 20 (7%) |
| §103 only | 91 (32%) |
| §102 only | 22 (8%) |
| §112 only | 16 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 9 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 117 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | 3 | 95.2% | +2.4% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 2 | 67.9% | +19.9% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
| CHOE, HENRY | 2 | 92.1% | -1.6% |
| NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2 | 85.8% | +12.5% |
| ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | 2 | 82.5% | +25.9% |
| ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 2 | 83.5% | +4.2% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| REAMES, MATTHEW L | 2 | 77.1% | +18.0% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 2 | 43.1% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788116 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHOE, HENRY | — |
| 18784851 | NOISE DETECTING CIRCUIT AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | CHOE, HENRY | — |
| 18777584 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | — |
| 18629498 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18629516 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18597970 | Light Sensor Structure and Packaging Method thereof | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | — |
| 18597966 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING A PATTERNED CONTACT | RAMALLO, GUSTAVO G | — |
| 18582702 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17190458 | Wafer testing machine and method for training artificial intelligence model to test wafer | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 169d overdue |
| 18149684 | Touch sensing circuit | EDWARDS, MARK | 161d overdue |
| 17866595 | EXECUTION METHOD OF ONLINE DISCUSSION BOARD AND SERVER USING THE SAME | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 149d overdue |
| 18938742 | Smart Gait Analysis Insoles | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 146d overdue |
| 18202360 | BUMP STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HANUMASAGAR, SHAMITA S | 86d overdue |
| 17899890 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THEREOF | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 79d overdue |
| 17916628 | NOVEL FILTER MATERIAL, FACE MASK COMPRISING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 74d overdue |
| 18781247 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 60d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748101 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 22d |
| 18584475 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 27d |
| 19063333 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — |
| 19055556 | ROTARY DIAL STRUCTURE | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18629498 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18629516 | AMPLIFIER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — |
| 18586596 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | — |
| 18406246 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | REAMES, MATTHEW L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 9 |
| 2818 | 7 |
| 2898 | 6 |
| 2893 | 6 |
| 2891 | 5 |
| 4100 | 5 |
| 2817 | 5 |
| 2874 | 4 |
| 3791 | 4 |
| 1716 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19449492 | Capacitive Sensing Knob Apparatus and Touch Sensitive Processing Apparatus Thereof and Touch System | Egalax_Empia Technology Inc. | SASINOWSKI, ANDREW | 2625 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2026 |
| 19411845 | Composition for inhibiting generation of melanin and the use thereof | Dao Lung Steven Lin | PYLA, EVELYN Y | 1633 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2025 |
| 19370823 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT | Taizhou Guanyu Technology Co., Ltd. | XIE, KWIN | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19478847 | OPTICAL AIMGING APPARATUS | Taizhou Guanyu Technology Co., Ltd. | CAUDLE, LOGAN WILLIAM | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19273162 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | O TOOLE, COLLEEN J | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 | |
| 19245452 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | PEREZ, JAMES M | 2631 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19245453 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DUTY CYCLE ADJUSTMENT | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | COX, CASSANDRA F | 2842 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19240688 | PIXEL CIRCUIT | Auo Corporation | AZARI, SEPEHR | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19240884 | Oscillating circuit having temperature compensation mechanism | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19230154 | DETECTION SYSTEM SENDING CALCULATED DATA AND RAW DATA | Pixart Imaging Inc. | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 | |
| 19218932 | MEMORY DEVICE SUPPORTING MULTIPLE SERIAL PRESENCE DETECTION SETTINGS | Team Group Inc. | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19215374 | Wearable Physiological Signal Sensing System | Decentralized Biotechnology Intelligence Co., Ltd. | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 | |
| 19215628 | CLOCK CIRCUIT AND RELATED METHOD IMPROVING FREQUENCY HOPPING | M31 Technology Corporation | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 | |
| 19214066 | COWOS IC STRUCTURE WITH EDGE-PAD SEMICONDUCTOR DIE | Etron Technology, Inc. | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19209865 | ADJUSTABLE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE EXERCISE TRAINING EQUIPMENT FOR UPPER LIMB WEIGHT-BEARING IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION | Hongyan Health Technology Ltd. | JALALZADEH ABYANE, SHILA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 | |
| 19194045 | MEMORY DEVICE, READ CLOCK GENERATION CIRCUIT, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING READ OPERATION IN MEMORY DEVICE | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | HIDALGO, FERNANDO N | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19186105 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | Richtek Technology Corporation | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19185898 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD AND DEFORMABLE MOLDING UNIT | Arcadyan Technology Corporation | YI, STELLA KIM | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 | |
| 19176515 | NOVEL LID ASSEMBLY | King'S Flair Marketing Limited | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 | |
| 19090450 | Vehicle Safety Assistance System and Method | VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19089031 | OPERATION PULSE SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELL | Ememory Technology Inc. | RADKE, JAY W | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| 19082244 | INDICATOR EVALUATION METHOD AND INDICATOR EVALUATION SYSTEM OF CLUSTER STABILITY | Profet AI Technology Co., Ltd. | CAIADO, ANTONIO J | 2164 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19078333 | Analog-to-digital conversion circuit and time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion circuit | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 | |
| 19063333 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD | King Steel Machinery Co., Ltd. | SWIER, WAYNE K. | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19063397 | Clock frequency regulating circuit | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | PRIFTI, AUREL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19055556 | ROTARY DIAL STRUCTURE | Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19055862 | Signal output apparatus having programmable slew rate | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | NGUYEN, HAI L | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19050140 | CAPACITOR-LESS LOW-DROPOUT REGULATOR WITH DYNAMIC FREQUENCY COMPENSATION | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19047669 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | SECK, AHMED F | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19044057 | DATA RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING METHOD AND DATA RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DEVICE | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | BELKHAYAT, ZAKARIA MOHAMMED | 2139 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19036100 | Driving structure for display panel | Sitronix Technology Corporation | MATTHEWS, ANDRE L | 2621 | §102 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19036274 | FAKE FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION DEVICE AND FAKE FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION METHOD | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19036193 | Voltage detection circuit and voltage detection system | Infsitronix Technology Corporation | PATEL, DHARTI HARIDAS | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 | |
| 19034665 | ANGLE-ADJUSTABLE FIXING STRUCTURE | Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 4100 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19034299 | BILATERAL HETEROGENEOUS POLYMER-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTRAOCULAR LENS, PREPARATION PROCESS, AND USE FOR ANTIFOULING, ANTI-CELL MIGRATION, ANTI-INFLAMMATION, AND ANTI-POSTERIOR CAPSULE OPACIFICATION | National Tsing Hua University | LEE, SIN J | 1613 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19032136 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 19021307 | Driving structure for display panel | Sitronix Technology Corporation | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 2627 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19020512 | METHOD FOR WAFER INSECTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | Cheng Mei Instrument Technology Co., Ltd. | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19010213 | TEST PHANTOM FOR EVALUATING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IMAGES | Kaohsiung Medical University | FAYE, MAMADOU | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19005288 | ROLLER BLIND | Sunlight Envirotech Co., Limited | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19003277 | Harmonic compensation apparatus and method | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18986760 | OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE MOTION CARRIER | Primax Electronics Ltd. | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18980525 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND OPTICAL SHIFTING FILM THEREOF | Auo Corporation | CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 | |
| 18979712 | URINARY BAG REDUCING URINE BLOCKAGE | Chien-Chung Su | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 | |
| 18980664 | INTERACTIVE ORAL CAVITY PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMAGE RECOGNITION ORAL CAVITY CANCER | National Health Research Institutes | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18979685 | Ultra-wideband circuit | Realtek Semiconductor Corporation | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980057 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | Sigmastar Technology Ltd. | COBB, MICHAEL J | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 | |
| 18977462 | METHOD FOR PRIVATE SET INTERSECTION IN SMART CITY SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Qi An Xin Technology Group Inc. | HO, DAO Q | 2432 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18974840 | SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | TRAN, BINH X | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 | |
| 18969335 | NOZZLE HAVING REAL TIME INSPECTION FUNCTIONS | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 2877 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial90.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by WPAT, P.C. were allowed, across 17,359 applications in USPTO records.
2.65 office actions per allowed application on average.
282 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 99 clients, before 267 examiners in 124 art units.