Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 2 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asia Optical Co., Inc. is actively prosecuting 8 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Despite the volume of actions, the portfolio is concentrated in only 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's filings are technically similar but distributed among many different officials. Specifically, there are 8 distinct examiners assigned to these cases, meaning each examiner is currently handling a single pending matter for the company.
LEI, JIE is noted as the busiest examiner, although they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner-level concentration, requiring the company to navigate 8 different sets of examiner preferences and styles simultaneously. The contrast between having 8 distinct examiners and only 2 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is focused, the USPTO has assigned the workload across a wide pool of personnel. For practitioners, this means that strategies successful in a specific case may not easily translate to others, even within the same art unit, due to the high number of individual examiners involved.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
| WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 1 | 81.3% | +8.7% |
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 1 | 89.1% | +4.9% |
| CHIEN, LUCY P | 1 | 82.9% | +5.5% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
| CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 1 | 89.6% | +6.4% |
| BEATTY, COLLIN X | 1 | 82.1% | +14.2% |
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 70.9% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544648 | ILLUMINATION MODULE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 61d |
| 18966345 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | — |
| 18915695 | Wide-Angle Lens Assembly | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — |
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 | 3 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985309 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | LEI, JIE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18966345 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS ASSEMBLY | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18915695 | Wide-Angle Lens Assembly | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18914360 | Wide-Angle Lens Assembly | CHIEN, LUCY P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18817385 | Lens Assembly | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — | §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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