Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hongyi Optical Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Carnell Hunter III, in 1 distinct art unit. Carnell Hunter III is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action, the entire current workload is centralized with this examiner. This suggests a narrow scope of current examination activity for the company's optics-related patent applications.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the 1 pending office action is subject to a single set of examination criteria. Because Carnell Hunter III is the only examiner currently active for the company, his individual approach will define the immediate results. This centralized structure in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector provides a clear and predictable path for the company's intellectual property. Practitioners can efficiently manage this portfolio by focusing on the specific standards and history of the 1 distinct examiner involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER III, CARNELL | 1 | 91.8% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17697946 | STACKED LUMINESCENT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HUNTER III, CARNELL | 406d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17697946 | STACKED LUMINESCENT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HUNTER III, CARNELL | 406d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2800 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17697946 | STACKED LUMINESCENT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HUNTER III, CARNELL | 2800 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 406d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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