Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emagin Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical reach within this field. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter receives an independent review. This distribution suggests that the company is actively pursuing multiple technical paths that require specialized expertise from various administrative groups.
LAW, NGA LEUNG V is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. The presence of 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a coordinated strategy to manage the different requirements of the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the feedback across these various reviewers to identify potential trends in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Maintaining consistency in legal arguments is critical when navigating multiple art units and examiners simultaneously.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.7% | +20.7% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.6% | +30.5% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +14.0% |
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 1 | 72.2% | +18.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17890548 | LARGE AREA DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18236243 | Rigid Sapphire Based Direct Patterning Deposition Mask | CROWELL, ANNA M | 45d overdue |
| 18229676 | EVAPORATION SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COLLIMATION | MOORE, KARLA A | 16d |
| 18609316 | Mechanically Pre-biased Shadow Mask and Method of Formation | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| 17890548 | LARGE AREA DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18609316 | Mechanically Pre-biased Shadow Mask and Method of Formation | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18236243 | Rigid Sapphire Based Direct Patterning Deposition Mask | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18229676 | EVAPORATION SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COLLIMATION | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 17890548 | LARGE AREA DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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