Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 50 patents granted in the last 365 days
E Ink Holdings Inc. has 38 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket reaches 32 examiners and 15 art units, reflecting substantial examiner dispersion alongside recurring art-unit involvement.
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Because the largest examiner assignment is limited, portfolio oversight should emphasize art-unit patterns and recurring technical issues rather than relying primarily on one examiner relationship.
A centralized review process can organize deadlines and identify common claim themes, while matter teams address the different examination positions reflected across the examiner assignments.
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 | 8 (53%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2 | 78.0% | +19.1% |
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.1% | +7.4% |
| PHAM, QUAN L | 1 | 69.6% | +28.1% |
| MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 1 | 67.1% | +19.6% |
| SMITH, SAMUEL JONATHAN | 1 | 84.3% | +4.6% |
| APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 1 | 65.3% | +18.8% |
| HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 1 | 69.0% | +8.3% |
| KIANNI, KAVEH C | 1 | 87.2% | +11.0% |
| CROCKETT, RYAN M | 1 | 79.0% | +5.2% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.2% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19417347 | DISPLAY DEVICE | HALEY, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19228775 | ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EQUIPMENT SURFACE | PHAM, QUAN L | — |
| 18817226 | TRANSISTOR BACKPLANE STRUCTURE | SMITH, SAMUEL JONATHAN | — |
| 18638587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | — |
| 18608954 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | KIANNI, KAVEH C | — |
| 18444778 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | REIDA, MOLLY KAY | — |
| 18444786 | DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780506 | FRONT LIGHT MODULE AND REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 28d |
| 19228775 | ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EQUIPMENT SURFACE | PHAM, QUAN L | — |
| 19063323 | ELECTRIC PAPER DISPLAY PANEL | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 19026238 | COLOR FILTER MODULE | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 18921013 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | — |
| 18608954 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | KIANNI, KAVEH C | — |
| 18597780 | DISPLAY DEVICE | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2871 | 3 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19417347 | DISPLAY DEVICE | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19228775 | ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EQUIPMENT SURFACE | PHAM, QUAN L | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19063323 | ELECTRIC PAPER DISPLAY PANEL | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19026238 | COLOR FILTER MODULE | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18921013 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY | MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18817226 | TRANSISTOR BACKPLANE STRUCTURE | SMITH, SAMUEL JONATHAN | 2817 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18780506 | FRONT LIGHT MODULE AND REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE | APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18638587 | DISPLAY DEVICE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18608954 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | KIANNI, KAVEH C | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18603217 | SHAPABLE DISPLAY DEVICE | CROCKETT, RYAN M | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18597780 | DISPLAY DEVICE | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18444778 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE | REIDA, MOLLY KAY | 2899 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18444786 | DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 2893 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18356208 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND REFLECTIVE DISPLAY | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18048864 | ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY DEVICE | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialE Ink Holdings Inc. has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 14 examiners.
John Curtis Sipes has the most, with 2 of E Ink Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
