Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 11 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gentex Corporation has 15 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 15 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, showing a fully dispersed examiner assignment pattern and some recurring art-unit activity.
GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-specific concentration appears in the data, so counsel should emphasize consistent portfolio processes and application-by-application technical analysis.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 7 (47%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 1 | 61.7% | +17.4% |
| REED, STEPHEN T | 1 | 73.1% | +15.0% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.6% | +9.2% |
| LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 1 | 79.8% | +0.2% |
| LOPEZ, ERICK I | 1 | 53.4% | +29.7% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.7% | +10.5% |
| KIM, RICHARD H | 1 | 81.8% | +5.5% |
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.3% | +20.4% |
| SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | 1 | 61.9% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789907 | ELECTRO-OPTIC ELEMENTS HAVING FASTER DISSOLVING SPACER BEADS | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520886 | MONITORING SYSTEM | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 28d |
| 18912993 | EC DIMMING DEVICE WITH THIN CELL SPACING | TRA, TUYEN Q | — |
| 18610598 | FEATURE FOR REARVIEW ASSEMBLY HOLDING ADDITIONAL HMI | KIM, RICHARD H | — |
| 18434235 | INFRARED ADDITIVE FOR AN EPOXY USED TO MAKE AN OPTIC FOR USE WITH LIGHT SENSORS | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | — |
| 18233389 | EDGE PORT CELL-SPACE REDUCTION USING A SEAL-EMBEDDED SLIDE | MERLIN, JESSICA M | — |
| 18203126 | RESPIRATION MONITORING SYSTEM USING A STRUCTURED LIGHT | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855928 | Impact Attenuating Tensile Helmet Liner | LOPEZ, ERICK I | 38d overdue |
| 19001747 | FACE SHIELD HEADS UP DISPLAY WITH RESCUE GUIDANCE | REED, STEPHEN T | 50d |
| 19220518 | FULL DISPLAY REARVIEW ASSEMBLY VIDEO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | — |
| 18789907 | ELECTRO-OPTIC ELEMENTS HAVING FASTER DISSOLVING SPACER BEADS | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| 18721603 | COATING AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR ENHANCING BALLISTIC PROTECTION | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | — |
| 18599618 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY POWERING SYSTEM | TUMEBO, TSION M | — |
| 18434235 | INFRARED ADDITIVE FOR AN EPOXY USED TO MAKE AN OPTIC FOR USE WITH LIGHT SENSORS | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2627 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220518 | FULL DISPLAY REARVIEW ASSEMBLY VIDEO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 4100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19001747 | FACE SHIELD HEADS UP DISPLAY WITH RESCUE GUIDANCE | REED, STEPHEN T | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18912993 | EC DIMMING DEVICE WITH THIN CELL SPACING | TRA, TUYEN Q | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18911492 | CONCEALMENT PANEL WITH ASYMMETRIC REFLECTANCE | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18855928 | Impact Attenuating Tensile Helmet Liner | LOPEZ, ERICK I | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18789907 | ELECTRO-OPTIC ELEMENTS HAVING FASTER DISSOLVING SPACER BEADS | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18721603 | COATING AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR ENHANCING BALLISTIC PROTECTION | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18610598 | FEATURE FOR REARVIEW ASSEMBLY HOLDING ADDITIONAL HMI | KIM, RICHARD H | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18599618 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY POWERING SYSTEM | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18434235 | INFRARED ADDITIVE FOR AN EPOXY USED TO MAKE AN OPTIC FOR USE WITH LIGHT SENSORS | SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18520886 | MONITORING SYSTEM | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18233389 | EDGE PORT CELL-SPACE REDUCTION USING A SEAL-EMBEDDED SLIDE | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18203126 | RESPIRATION MONITORING SYSTEM USING A STRUCTURED LIGHT | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18170380 | ELECTROCHROMIC COMPOUNDS FOR MEMORY ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES | WEINER, LAURA S | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 17612004 | Helmet Impact Attenuation Liner | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 107d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialGentex Corporation has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 15 examiners.
Shadan Haghani Gingrich has the most, with 1 of Gentex Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
