Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days
Himax Technologies Limited has 12 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units, demonstrating broad distribution across the examining organization. This pattern calls for coordination that can preserve portfolio objectives while accommodating varied technical and examiner contexts.
SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner is a useful focus for targeted docket review, but the larger management task is the dispersion of the remaining actions. Counsel should identify recurring issues without assuming uniform treatment across the art units.
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 | 5 (38%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2 | 67.7% | +7.7% |
| GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 1 | 87.9% | +13.6% |
| FLOHRE, JASON A | 1 | 68.8% | +18.1% |
| AZARI, SEPEHR | 1 | 66.8% | +7.8% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.2% | +10.4% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.4% | +5.8% |
| LIENG, MALANE | 1 | 92.7% | +9.1% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.1% | +9.7% |
| NOEL, JEMPSON | 1 | 66.9% | +30.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMAGE COMPRESSION | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| 18895352 | HYBRID THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| 18797259 | INVERTER-BASED COMPARATOR | ALMO, KHAREEM E | — |
| 18596269 | RGBIR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PATEL, PINALBEN V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967538 | DISPLAY IMAGE COMPENSATION DEVICE AND COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | AZARI, SEPEHR | — |
| 18787906 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER | LIENG, MALANE | — |
| 18433446 | STRUCTURED LIGHT SENSING MODULE | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 18398169 | PATTERN PROJECTOR | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 17358011 | DOT PATTERN PROJECTOR FOR USE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMAGE COMPRESSION | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| 18976027 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | FLOHRE, JASON A | — |
| 18895352 | HYBRID THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| 18586576 | DEPTH SENSING DEVICE AND DEPTH SENSING METHOD | NOEL, JEMPSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 4 |
| 2673 | 2 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMAGE COMPRESSION | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 2673 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2024 |
| 18976027 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | FLOHRE, JASON A | 2637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18967538 | DISPLAY IMAGE COMPENSATION DEVICE AND COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | AZARI, SEPEHR | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18895352 | HYBRID THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18797259 | INVERTER-BASED COMPARATOR | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18787906 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER | LIENG, MALANE | 2843 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18596269 | RGBIR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18586576 | DEPTH SENSING DEVICE AND DEPTH SENSING METHOD | NOEL, JEMPSON | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18433446 | STRUCTURED LIGHT SENSING MODULE | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18398169 | PATTERN PROJECTOR | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18531727 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FACTORY TESTING OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS USING BUILT-IN ANALOG VOLTAGE SELF-TEST | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §102 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 17846029 | LINE PATTERN PROJECTOR FOR USE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17358011 | DOT PATTERN PROJECTOR FOR USE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialHimax Technologies Limited has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 11 examiners.
Aviraj Dongsook Singh has the most, with 2 of Himax Technologies Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
