Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foshan Nationstar Optoelectronics Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is handled by a different examiner, with the work spread across three technical groups. The presence of 3 distinct art units for 4 pending office actions suggests a variety of technical classifications within the company's semiconductor portfolio.
Michael Chiang is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, and the busiest examiner pending count is 1. This distribution means that the company's prosecution success is not tied to any single individual. Instead, the company must navigate the requirements of 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This variety in the 4 pending office actions requires a flexible strategy that can address the specific technical standards of each art unit while responding to the unique perspectives of the four different examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIANG, MICHAEL | 1 | 70.7% | +21.6% |
| GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN | 1 | 90.2% | +2.4% |
| BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | 1 | 93.8% | +7.9% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509924 | OPTOCOUPLER, LEAD FRAME AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17605586 | Light Emitting Lamp Bead and Lamp | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 520d overdue |
| 18718157 | LED BACKLIGHT SOURCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHIANG, MICHAEL | — |
| 18648434 | LED DISPLAY DEVICE ARRAY, LED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY PANEL | GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17605586 | Light Emitting Lamp Bead and Lamp | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 520d overdue |
| 18718157 | LED BACKLIGHT SOURCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHIANG, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718157 | LED BACKLIGHT SOURCE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHIANG, MICHAEL | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18648434 | LED DISPLAY DEVICE ARRAY, LED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY PANEL | GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
| 18509924 | OPTOCOUPLER, LEAD FRAME AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | BAIG, ANEESA RIAZ | 2814 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 17605586 | Light Emitting Lamp Bead and Lamp | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 520d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2021 |
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