Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
DigiLens Inc. currently has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 7 pending office actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is being reviewed by a different official. SHANKAR, VIJAY is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This ratio of 7 pending matters to 7 distinct examiners indicates a broad exposure to different examination styles.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, showing a focused technical footprint within the semiconductor and optics sectors. With 7 distinct examiners involved, the applicant must navigate 7 different sets of expectations across only 3 distinct art units. This suggests that even within a small number of art units, the specific examiner assignments are quite varied. Managing 7 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a strategy that can accommodate the individual tendencies of 7 distinct examiners while adhering to the standards of the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHANKAR, VIJAY | 1 | 90.9% | +8.6% |
| BEATTY, COLLIN X | 1 | 82.1% | +14.2% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.5% | +20.4% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.1% | +20.9% |
| FRASER, STEWART A | 1 | 85.9% | +14.5% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702763 | Compact Projector for Display System | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 70d |
| 19056523 | Wearable Heads Up Displays | SHANKAR, VIJAY | — |
| 18407259 | Evacuated Gratings and Methods of Manufacturing | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550875 | Smart Device Mounted Augmented Reality Displays | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 57d |
| 18620834 | Surface Mounted Volume Phase Structure and Methods of Manufacturing Thereof | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689045 | Head Worn Augmented Reality Displays | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 21d |
| 18550875 | Smart Device Mounted Augmented Reality Displays | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 57d |
| 18702763 | Compact Projector for Display System | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 70d |
| 18620834 | Surface Mounted Volume Phase Structure and Methods of Manufacturing Thereof | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18407259 | Evacuated Gratings and Methods of Manufacturing | FRASER, STEWART A | — |
| 18330256 | Methods and Apparatuses for Providing a Single Grating Layer Color Holographic Waveguide Display | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056523 | Wearable Heads Up Displays | SHANKAR, VIJAY | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18702763 | Compact Projector for Display System | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18620834 | Surface Mounted Volume Phase Structure and Methods of Manufacturing Thereof | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18689045 | Head Worn Augmented Reality Displays | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18407259 | Evacuated Gratings and Methods of Manufacturing | FRASER, STEWART A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18550875 | Smart Device Mounted Augmented Reality Displays | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18330256 | Methods and Apparatuses for Providing a Single Grating Layer Color Holographic Waveguide Display | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
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