Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a specialized but varied technical footprint. The prosecution workload is divided among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each active case is handled by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company faces a diverse set of examination perspectives.
BOCAR, DONNA V is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under her review. This even distribution across 6 examiners suggests that the company does not currently face a bottleneck with any single examiner. Legal teams must account for the diverse requirements of 4 distinct art units while managing these 6 pending actions. Because each of the actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must maintain 6 unique prosecution tracks. The presence of 4 distinct art units further indicates that the portfolio spans multiple specialized technical niches with 1 pending office action per examiner.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCAR, DONNA V | 1 | 57.7% | +20.1% |
| BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 1 | 81.6% | +13.6% |
| LEE, EUGENE | 1 | 81.9% | +5.8% |
| FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 1 | 49.1% | +32.7% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +44.5% |
| MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 1 | 85.7% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337601 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005329 | TOUCH PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOCAR, DONNA V | 32d overdue |
| 18937305 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY, HOUSING AND MOBILE TERMINAL | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2d overdue |
| 18654404 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LEE, EUGENE | — |
| 18645834 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | — |
| 18341227 | COVER PLATE FOR DISPLAY SCREEN, METHOD FOR PREPARING COVER PLATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005329 | TOUCH PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOCAR, DONNA V | 32d overdue |
| 18937305 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY, HOUSING AND MOBILE TERMINAL | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2d overdue |
| 18645834 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | — |
| 18341227 | COVER PLATE FOR DISPLAY SCREEN, METHOD FOR PREPARING COVER PLATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18337601 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19005329 | TOUCH PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18937305 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY, HOUSING AND MOBILE TERMINAL | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | 2845 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18654404 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LEE, EUGENE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18645834 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18341227 | COVER PLATE FOR DISPLAY SCREEN, METHOD FOR PREPARING COVER PLATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18337601 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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