Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Yoshida & Associates, LLC focuses on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, having handled 426 career applications. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate of 81.1 percent. This rate indicates the level of success in securing grants within these specific technical sectors. The firm currently manages 7 pending office actions, which are the active matters currently undergoing examination by the patent office.
The average number of office actions per allowance is 3.41. This figure suggests the prosecution timeline, where the firm typically navigates this specific number of rounds of examination before reaching a conclusion. The 81.1 percent allowance rate across 426 career applications shows the ability to overcome rejections in this field. Practitioners can interpret the 3.41 average office actions per allowance as a sign of the negotiation required with examiners to reach an outcome. This data reflects the prosecution approach for the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HON, SOW FUN | 1 | 57.7% | +64.8% |
| CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1 | 45.7% | +11.9% |
| HAGAN, SEAN P | 1 | 39.4% | +30.4% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
| SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 76.9% | +6.2% |
| KIM, ROBERT H | 1 | 52.7% | +24.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101078 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 121d overdue |
| 18272035 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT, APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT AND OPTICAL COMPONENT | HON, SOW FUN | — |
| 17859894 | STORAGE AND DRAINAGE MECHANISM, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE AND DRAINAGE METHOD | KIM, ROBERT H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101078 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 121d overdue |
| 18272035 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT, APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT AND OPTICAL COMPONENT | HON, SOW FUN | — |
| 18271038 | PHOTO TREATMENT DEVICE | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | — |
| 18121002 | MULTI-BEAM SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 17859894 | STORAGE AND DRAINAGE MECHANISM, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE AND DRAINAGE METHOD | KIM, ROBERT H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 2 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2800 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18272035 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT, APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENT AND OPTICAL COMPONENT | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18271038 | PHOTO TREATMENT DEVICE | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18121002 | MULTI-BEAM SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18101078 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17982849 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE UNIT | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17859894 | STORAGE AND DRAINAGE MECHANISM, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE AND DRAINAGE METHOD | USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA | KIM, ROBERT H | 2800 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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