Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 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. currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 3 actions are split among 3 distinct examiners, with LAVARIAS, ARNEL C acting as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the pending actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, though the workload is more concentrated at the art unit level.
Practitioners should note that the actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which may result in varying examination styles. Because LAVARIAS, ARNEL C only manages 1 pending action, no examiner holds a majority of the current workload. This requires a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units and the various examiners involved in the current portfolio.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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% | +0.3% |
| LEE, PAUL CHANG | 1 | 75.1% | +14.0% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399625 | LENS DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 73d overdue |
| 18334347 | OPTICAL SYSTEM | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2871 | 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 |
| 18334347 | OPTICAL SYSTEM | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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