Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
AFL Telecommunications LLC has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. These matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, with examiner assignments spread more broadly than the art-unit assignments.
LEPISTO, RYAN A is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. A centralized review process can help preserve consistency across the portfolio, while the art-unit distribution provides a useful basis for organizing technical response templates.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2 | 75.5% | +13.1% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 49.4% | +11.7% |
| HARTMANN, GARY S | 1 | 72.6% | +19.1% |
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 70.7% | +17.5% |
| JORDAN, ANDREW | 1 | 44.4% | +17.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720016 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS RACK ASSEMBLY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS MODULES | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422419 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE | JORDAN, ANDREW | 34d |
| 19278369 | FOLDABLE AND/OR COLLAPSIBLE PLASTIC/COMPOSITE UTILITY ENCLOSURE | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18844134 | COVER | HARTMANN, GARY S | — |
| 18805741 | BUTT CLOSURES AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| 18711263 | CLOSURE AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBILES THEREFOR | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 18638934 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE AND PANEL | PENG, CHARLIE YU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 5 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19278369 | FOLDABLE AND/OR COLLAPSIBLE PLASTIC/COMPOSITE UTILITY ENCLOSURE | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3733 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 18844134 | COVER | HARTMANN, GARY S | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18805741 | BUTT CLOSURES AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR | PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2874 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18720016 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS RACK ASSEMBLY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS MODULES | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2874 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18711263 | CLOSURE AND ORGANIZER ASSEMBILES THEREFOR | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18638934 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE AND PANEL | PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18422419 | OPTICAL FIBER CASSETTE | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAFL Telecommunications LLC has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Charlie Yu Peng has the most, with 2 of AFL Telecommunications LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
