Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. is currently managing 13 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, which indicates a significant volume of work being processed by this group. While there are 8 examiners involved, the total of 13 actions suggests that several examiners are handling multiple cases for the company.
WEN HUANG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 5 pending office actions. This represents a concentration of the company's total workload, as HUANG alone manages 5 of the total actions. The outcomes of these actions will have a large impact on the overall success of the company's current prosecution efforts in the semiconductor and optics field.
Despite the involvement of 8 different examiners, all 13 pending office actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's technology is focused within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area. Working within 1 art unit means that while individual examiners like WEN HUANG have influence, the overarching examination policies and primary prior art references are likely to be consistent across the entire portfolio.
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 | 9 (69%) |
| §102 only | 3 (23%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, WEN | 5 | 81.8% | +23.2% |
| FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 2 | 76.1% | +10.5% |
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 1 | 89.1% | +4.9% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
| MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 1 | 85.9% | +3.2% |
| CHOI, WILLIAM C | 1 | 92.6% | +4.1% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645388 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | CHOI, WILLIAM C | 34d |
| 18631824 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | 71d |
| 18926322 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — |
| 18905586 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18893401 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18824936 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18803949 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18674935 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637471 | OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS OF STRAY LIGHT | NIGAM, NATASHA | 23d |
| 18631824 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | 71d |
| 18940871 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | — |
| 18905586 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18893401 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18824936 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18803949 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18592538 | ZOOM LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940871 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18926322 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18905586 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18893401 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18824936 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18803949 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18801298 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18674935 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2024 |
| 18645388 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | CHOI, WILLIAM C | 2872 | §102 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18637471 | OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS OF STRAY LIGHT | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18631824 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | HUANG, WEN | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18592538 | ZOOM LENS | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 2872 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18430665 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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