Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barco NV has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, placing them in separate examination assignments.
OWENS, DANELL L is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Practitioners should coordinate technical terminology across the matters while tailoring amendments and arguments to each semiconductor examination record.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OWENS, DANELL L | 1 | 75.9% | +11.2% |
| SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 76.4% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 50d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 50d overdue |
| 18852814 | COLOR PROJECTOR WITH A BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION TO A COLOR PROJECTOR | OWENS, DANELL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852814 | COLOR PROJECTOR WITH A BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION TO A COLOR PROJECTOR | OWENS, DANELL L | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBarco NV has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Danell L Owens has the most, with 1 of Barco NV's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
