Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Altice Labs S A is managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is assigned to a different individual. Despite the variety of examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, showing some level of organizational overlap at the patent office. This structure requires the company to monitor the specific preferences of 3 distinct examiners while operating within 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, VINH P, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total count of 3 pending office actions is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, the workload is balanced with each examiner responsible for 1 action. This structure necessitates coordination across 2 distinct art units to ensure consistent prosecution outcomes. The presence of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions indicates a decentralized examiner-level strategy, where no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, VINH P | 1 | 86.4% | +16.1% |
| CHU, CHRIS H | 1 | 53.2% | +9.4% |
| KRETZER, CASEY L | 1 | 86.8% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980982 | ERRONEOUS POWER ADAPTER DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723158 | A DUAL SMALL FORM-FACTOR PLUGGABLE DOUBLE-DENSITY MULTIPLE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK MODULE | KRETZER, CASEY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980982 | ERRONEOUS POWER ADAPTER DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, VINH P | — |
| 18723158 | A DUAL SMALL FORM-FACTOR PLUGGABLE DOUBLE-DENSITY MULTIPLE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK MODULE | KRETZER, CASEY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18980982 | ERRONEOUS POWER ADAPTER DETECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, VINH P | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18755358 | BALE-CLASP COVER MECHANISM FOR A SUBSCRIBER CONNECTOR PLUGGABLE OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER | CHU, CHRIS H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18723158 | A DUAL SMALL FORM-FACTOR PLUGGABLE DOUBLE-DENSITY MULTIPLE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK MODULE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 2635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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