Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

E Ink Holdings Inc.

28 pending office actions • 12 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 91 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

9
Hard (32%)
18
Medium (64%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (50%)
§102 only3 (11%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (32%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
7% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
9
Communications
32% of docket
10
Semiconductors
36% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
6
Business / Other
21% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CROCKETT, RYAN M 2 79.0% +5.7%
BOCAR, DONNA V 1 58.0% +19.7%
XAVIER, ANTONIO J 1 71.0% +18.3%
BALAOING, ARIEL A 1 79.4% +7.0%
HALEY, JOSEPH R 1 79.2% +7.2%
SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE 1 77.6% +2.7%
MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT 1 67.0% +19.5%
FLECK, LINDA JOAN 1 78.2% +18.6%
QURESHI, MARIAM 1 75.4% +22.2%
HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 1 66.7% +5.9%

Hard Cases (9)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18051011 FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y 50d overdue
19366525 ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD BOCAR, DONNA V
19334990 PIXEL CIRCUIT XAVIER, ANTONIO J
18939551 DISPLAY DEVICE SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE
18751355 COLOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY PANEL FLECK, LINDA JOAN
18638587 DISPLAY DEVICE HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL
18444786 DISPLAY DEVICE NGUYEN, SOPHIA T
19343117 METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE YEUNG, MATTHEW

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18641451 ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE QURESHI, MARIAM 7d
19366525 ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD BOCAR, DONNA V
19334990 PIXEL CIRCUIT XAVIER, ANTONIO J
18824935 THREE-DIMENSIONAL REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT
18751355 COLOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY PANEL FLECK, LINDA JOAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2871 4
2872 4
2621 3
2622 3
2624 1
2893 1
2818 1
2623 1
1737 1
2625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19366525 ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD BOCAR, DONNA V 2621 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2025
19334990 PIXEL CIRCUIT XAVIER, ANTONIO J 2622 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 22, 2025
19082206 DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD BALAOING, ARIEL A 2624 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 18, 2025
18979684 DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF HALEY, JOSEPH R 2621 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18939551 DISPLAY DEVICE SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18824935 THREE-DIMENSIONAL REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE MEDICH, ANGELA MARGOT §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2024
18751355 COLOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY PANEL FLECK, LINDA JOAN §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18641451 ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE QURESHI, MARIAM 2871 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Apr 22, 2024
18638587 DISPLAY DEVICE HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 2872 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 17, 2024
18603220 ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE CROCKETT, RYAN M 2871 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18603217 SHAPABLE DISPLAY DEVICE CROCKETT, RYAN M 2871 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 13, 2024
18597780 DISPLAY DEVICE GROSS, ALEXANDER P 2871 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2024
18444786 DISPLAY DEVICE NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 2893 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2024
18444771 PIXEL STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PIXEL STRUCTURE INOUSSA, MOULOUCOULAY 2818 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2024
18531716 ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF HONG, RICHARD J 2623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023
18356208 LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND REFLECTIVE DISPLAY PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §103Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18156380 FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON 1737 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 18, 2023
18051011 FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
19343117 METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE YEUNG, MATTHEW 2625 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2025
19312607 METHODS FOR REMOVING COLOR SHIFTS DURING ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY UPDATES LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY 2622 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2025
19296610 ELECTROPHORETIC DEVICE WITH AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR AND ADAPTIVE WHITENESS RESTORING AND COLOR BALANCING FRONTLIGHT LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E 2621 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 11, 2025
19233797 DRIVING VOLTAGES FOR ADVANCED COLOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS AND DISPLAYS WITH IMPROVED DRIVING VOLTAGES PATEL, SANJIV D 2622 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2025
19069651 COMPOSITION COMPRISING ADDITIVE HAVING A POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC GROUP AHVAZI, BIJAN §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2025
19002613 High Contrast Piezo-Electrophoretic Displays and Methods of Making the Same BEHA, CAROLINE 1748 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 2024
18930731 METHOD FOR DRIVING TWO LAYER VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DISPLAY PINKNEY, DAWAYNE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2024
18921090 LIGHT MODULATOR HAVING BONDED STRUCTURES EMBEDDED IN VIEWING AREA AND METHODS OF MAKING LIGHT MODULATORS LEE, PAUL CHANG §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18725539 DECORATIVE FILM AND VEHICLE WITH A DECORATIVE FILM CHUNG, DAVID Y 3612 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18396940 VARIABLE LIGHT TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND A METHOD OF OPERATION OF THE SAME STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 2872 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023

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