Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aac Optics (Changzhou) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the pending portfolio spans separate examination channels.
LAVARIAS, ARNEL C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The assignment pattern indicates that no single examiner accounts for the entire pending workload. Prosecution planning should therefore address the individual examiner and art unit context for each matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 1 | 79.8% | +0.2% |
| LEE, PAUL CHANG | 1 | 75.1% | +13.9% |
| HAYES, MARY A | 1 | 82.0% | +9.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544367 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE LENS AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | HAYES, MARY A | 98d overdue |
| 18399625 | LENS DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 73d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399625 | LENS DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18741809 | OPTICAL LENS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18399625 | LENS DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 2871 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18544367 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE LENS AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | HAYES, MARY A | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAac Optics (Changzhou) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Arnel C Lavarias has the most, with 1 of Aac Optics (Changzhou) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
