Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asia Optical Co., Inc. has 8 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are concentrated within 3 distinct art units, which suggests technical overlap among the company's pending applications. The portfolio is being prosecuted before 8 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is assigned to a unique individual at the USPTO. This ratio of examiners to art units indicates that multiple examiners are working within the same technical groups for this company.
LEI, JIE is the busiest examiner for Asia Optical Co., Inc., currently managing 1 pending office action. Although there are 8 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly dispersed among the distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to adapt to different examination styles while operating within the 3 distinct art units. Practitioners should look for opportunities to harmonize arguments across the art units, even though they must address the specific preferences of the examiners in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 1 | 81.4% | +8.8% |
| CHIEN, LUCY P | 1 | 82.9% | +4.9% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 54.3% | +20.7% |
| CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 1 | 89.6% | +6.4% |
| BEATTY, COLLIN X | 1 | 82.1% | +14.3% |
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 71.9% | +14.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544648 | ILLUMINATION MODULE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 61d |
| 18966345 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985309 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | LEI, JIE | — |
| 18914360 | Wide-Angle Lens Assembly | CHIEN, LUCY P | — |
| 18646876 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ADJUSTING DEVICE THEREOF | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18490812 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND PRISM MODULE THEREOF | BEATTY, COLLIN X | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985309 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | LEI, JIE | — |
| 18817385 | Lens Assembly | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| 18646876 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ADJUSTING DEVICE THEREOF | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18490812 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND PRISM MODULE THEREOF | BEATTY, COLLIN X | — |
| 18145085 | Lens Module | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985309 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18966345 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18914360 | Wide-Angle Lens Assembly | CHIEN, LUCY P | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18817385 | Lens Assembly | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18646876 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ADJUSTING DEVICE THEREOF | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18544648 | ILLUMINATION MODULE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 2882 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18490812 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND PRISM MODULE THEREOF | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 2872 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18145085 | Lens Module | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAsia Optical Co., Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 8 examiners.
Jie Lei has the most, with 1 of Asia Optical Co., Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
