Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Himax Technologies Limited is managing 11 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This workload is handled by 10 distinct examiners, creating a broad distribution for the company's current legal strategy. The prosecution is situated within 9 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse technical focus for the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. As there are 11 pending office actions total, this examiner manages a portion of the current activity for Himax Technologies Limited. The alignment of 10 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple examination paths across different office departments.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution of the pending workload depends on the review of 10 distinct examiners. With 9 distinct art units involved, the prior art landscape is likely varied across different groups. The company's presence in Communications is currently represented by these interactions at the patent office.
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 | 4 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2 | 69.0% | +6.1% |
| FLOHRE, JASON A | 1 | 68.8% | +18.2% |
| YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 1 | 74.9% | -4.3% |
| AZARI, SEPEHR | 1 | 67.0% | +8.3% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.3% | +10.3% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.3% | +5.6% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.2% | +9.5% |
| SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 1 | — | — |
| LEE, BYUNG RO | 1 | 75.8% | +14.5% |
| AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973129 | DEPTH SENSING SYSTEM AND DEPTH SENSING METHOD THEREOF | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | — |
| 18967538 | DISPLAY IMAGE COMPENSATION DEVICE AND COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | AZARI, SEPEHR | — |
| 18433446 | STRUCTURED LIGHT SENSING MODULE | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 18527334 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSING SYSTEM AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSING METHOD | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | — |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531727 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FACTORY TESTING OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS USING BUILT-IN ANALOG VOLTAGE SELF-TEST | LEE, BYUNG RO | 35d |
| 18976027 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | FLOHRE, JASON A | — |
| 18895352 | HYBRID THREE-DIMENSIONAL SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976027 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | FLOHRE, JASON A | 2637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18973129 | DEPTH SENSING SYSTEM AND DEPTH SENSING METHOD THEREOF | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 2672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 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 |
| 18596269 | RGBIR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18433446 | STRUCTURED LIGHT SENSING MODULE | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18527334 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSING SYSTEM AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSING METHOD | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 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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