Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dualitas Ltd. is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio touches on several different technical specialties within the field. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, showing a varied range of examiner perspectives across the active cases.
CHANG, AUDREY Y is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 2 pending actions. This is the only instance of examiner overlap, as the other pending office actions are handled by the remaining distinct examiners. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that while the technology area is Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, the company's filings are diverse enough to be reviewed by multiple technical groups.
With 7 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple concurrent timelines and examination styles. The concentration of 2 actions under CHANG, AUDREY Y represents the highest level of examiner-specific focus in the current portfolio, which spans the specified technology sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2 | 46.5% | +20.4% |
| BOOHER, ADAM W | 1 | 75.5% | +9.1% |
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.0% | +20.0% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
| MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 1 | 66.9% | +19.7% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 1 | 82.8% | +7.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17931738 | Compact Head-up Display | GAGNON, GRANT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17693508 | Image Projection | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 17d overdue |
| 18316309 | Light Turning Element | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 76d |
| 18435533 | Waveguide Defect Control | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18397788 | HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTOR | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17693508 | Image Projection | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 17d overdue |
| 18316309 | Light Turning Element | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 76d |
| 18738029 | Speckle Reduction | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18435533 | Waveguide Defect Control | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18397788 | HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTOR | MUHAMMAD, KEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915614 | Self-Cleaning Optical Component | BOOHER, ADAM W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18738029 | Speckle Reduction | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2024 |
| 18435533 | Waveguide Defect Control | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18397788 | HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTOR | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18316309 | Light Turning Element | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 2871 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 17931738 | Compact Head-up Display | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
| 17693508 | Image Projection | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2022 |
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