Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
ABL IP Holding LLC has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 6 actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage six separate prosecution tracks, tailoring its approach to the specific requirements of each examiner.
The portfolio's pending actions are located within 3 distinct art units. EIDE, ERIC T is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 6 examiners handles exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed across the 3 art units involved. This lack of examiner overlap across the 6 actions means that the company's success depends on the individual determinations of six different officials. Managing these diverse relationships across the 3 art units is essential for the company's semiconductor and optics intellectual property strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIDE, ERIC T | 1 | 66.9% | +22.1% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.7% | +16.2% |
| GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 1 | 67.8% | +7.5% |
| KING, MONICA C | 1 | 84.6% | +6.6% |
| NAJI, YOUNES | 1 | 75.2% | +73.4% |
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.4% | +18.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534296 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS ENABLED DIMMING CIRCUIT | KING, MONICA C | 88d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373885 | ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR LUMINAIRE DEVICES | NAJI, YOUNES | 60d overdue |
| 19266955 | OPTIC FRAME | EIDE, ERIC T | 43d overdue |
| 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 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 |
| 18115952 | LED LIGHT MODULE WITH MOLDED SILICONE OPTICS | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 16d overdue |
| 19091289 | LIGHT FIXTURE WITH EXTERNALLY SELECTABLE INTENSITY OR COLOR TEMPERATURE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 3 |
| 2844 | 2 |
| 2445 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 18115952 | LED LIGHT MODULE WITH MOLDED SILICONE OPTICS | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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