Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bulgari Horlogerie SA currently has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, indicating a slight overlap in the officials reviewing the company's applications. The prosecution is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests a focused technical scope for the pending intellectual property despite the number of active actions.
SEAN PHILLIP KAYES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a significant portion of the active workload, as the busiest examiner pending count represents a large share of the 5 total pending office actions. The company must balance its interactions with this primary examiner while also managing the requirements of the other three officials across the 2 active art units. This structure allows for some specialization in the prosecution strategy, particularly for the matters assigned to the busiest examiner. Practitioners should monitor the standards of both art units to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, JASON M | 2 | 75.0% | +12.9% |
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2 | 69.9% | +22.1% |
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 1 | 49.7% | +51.4% |
| HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 1 | 84.8% | +6.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844198 | METHOD FOR MANAGING RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT | DANG, CHRISTINE | 73d overdue |
| 18844193 | TIMEPIECE ASSEMBLY | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18844197 | BRIDGE FOR GUIDING A BALANCE OF A TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18842345 | EXTRA-FLAT TIMEPIECE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | — |
| 18842343 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FASTENING A CRYSTAL OF A TIMEPIECE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844198 | METHOD FOR MANAGING RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT | DANG, CHRISTINE | 73d overdue |
| 19107874 | CASE FOR A TIMEPIECE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18844193 | TIMEPIECE ASSEMBLY | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18844197 | BRIDGE FOR GUIDING A BALANCE OF A TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18842343 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FASTENING A CRYSTAL OF A TIMEPIECE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 4 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107874 | CASE FOR A TIMEPIECE | COLLINS, JASON M | 2844 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18844198 | METHOD FOR MANAGING RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18844193 | TIMEPIECE ASSEMBLY | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18844197 | BRIDGE FOR GUIDING A BALANCE OF A TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18842345 | EXTRA-FLAT TIMEPIECE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18842343 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FASTENING A CRYSTAL OF A TIMEPIECE | COLLINS, JASON M | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBulgari Horlogerie SA has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Jason M Collins has the most, with 2 of Bulgari Horlogerie SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
