Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
ABL IP Holding LLC has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution and repeated art-unit involvement. Each examiner is associated with one pending matter in the profile.
EIDE, ERIC T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel may use art-unit groupings to coordinate technical positions while retaining examiner-specific preparation for each response.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIDE, ERIC T | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
| BUI, HUNG S | 1 | 87.4% | +10.1% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 75.0% | +15.9% |
| GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 1 | 67.8% | +7.5% |
| KING, MONICA C | 1 | 84.6% | +6.6% |
| NAJI, YOUNES | 1 | 75.2% | +73.0% |
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 1 | 86.3% | +2.2% |
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.3% | +18.8% |
| ALAWDI, SHEHAB A | 1 | 83.8% | -18.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534296 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS ENABLED DIMMING CIRCUIT | KING, MONICA C | 88d overdue |
| 18206327 | LOW PROFILE EMERGENCY BATTERY-DRIVER ENCLOSURE | WELLS, KENNETH B | 21d |
| 17936898 | INITIATING COMMUNICATION IN A PERSONAL AREA NETWORK | ALAWDI, SHEHAB A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373885 | ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR LUMINAIRE DEVICES | NAJI, YOUNES | 60d overdue |
| 19266955 | OPTIC FRAME | EIDE, ERIC T | 43d overdue |
| 19226916 | WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL AND MOUNT SYSTEM | BUI, HUNG S | — |
| 18663744 | LIGHT FIXTURE CONFIGURED FOR SKY EMULATION | GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373885 | ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR LUMINAIRE DEVICES | NAJI, YOUNES | 60d overdue |
| 19266955 | OPTIC FRAME | EIDE, ERIC T | 43d overdue |
| 18115952 | LED LIGHT MODULE WITH MOLDED SILICONE OPTICS | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 16d overdue |
| 19226916 | WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL AND MOUNT SYSTEM | BUI, HUNG S | — |
| 19091289 | LIGHT FIXTURE WITH EXTERNALLY SELECTABLE INTENSITY OR COLOR TEMPERATURE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 3 |
| 2844 | 2 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2466 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19266955 | OPTIC FRAME | EIDE, ERIC T | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19226916 | WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL AND MOUNT SYSTEM | BUI, HUNG S | 2841 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19091289 | LIGHT FIXTURE WITH EXTERNALLY SELECTABLE INTENSITY OR COLOR TEMPERATURE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2844 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18663744 | LIGHT FIXTURE CONFIGURED FOR SKY EMULATION | GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18534296 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS ENABLED DIMMING CIRCUIT | KING, MONICA C | 2844 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18373885 | ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR LUMINAIRE DEVICES | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18206327 | LOW PROFILE EMERGENCY BATTERY-DRIVER ENCLOSURE | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18115952 | LED LIGHT MODULE WITH MOLDED SILICONE OPTICS | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17936898 | INITIATING COMMUNICATION IN A PERSONAL AREA NETWORK | ALAWDI, SHEHAB A | 2466 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialABL IP Holding LLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Eric T Eide has the most, with 1 of ABL IP Holding LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
