Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
49 pending office actions • 19 art units • 38 examiners • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hoya Corporation has 60 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 45 distinct examiners and 22 distinct art units, creating a wide prosecution footprint across multiple examination groups. The distribution indicates that portfolio-level oversight will be important for maintaining consistent claim strategy and identifying recurring technical or procedural issues.
AHVAZI, BIJAN is the busiest examiner, with 6 pending matters. That examiner represents a meaningful focal point within the portfolio, although the broader workload remains distributed among many other examiners. Counsel may want to prioritize a coordinated review of those matters while using the wider art-unit record to distinguish examiner-specific practices from issues appearing across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 (2%) |
| §103 only | 28 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 6 | 63.1% | +47.6% |
| COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 4 | 53.0% | +33.9% |
| CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 2 | 72.0% | +20.4% |
| LEE, ALEXANDER N | 2 | 75.4% | +11.0% |
| LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2 | 81.5% | +18.4% |
| HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 1 | 54.0% | +45.5% |
| FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1 | 59.1% | +20.1% |
| LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 1 | 69.3% | +37.9% |
| SONG, LI-TING | 1 | 66.3% | +33.6% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 1 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285186 | EYEGLASS LENS AND EYEGLASSES | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 46d |
| 18035367 | SPECTACLE LENS AND SPECTACLES | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270789 | MASK BLANK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 30d |
| 18702056 | ENDOSCOPE WITH INSERTION TUBE HAVING ADJACENT CUTS WITH UNEQUAL SPACING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH AN ENDOSCOPE | WU, PAMELA F | 41d |
| 19119537 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | — |
| 18842470 | ENDOSCOPE ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
| 19106762 | ENDOSCOPE | SONG, LI-TING | — |
| 18870562 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD IN ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | — |
| 18837757 | OPHTHALMIC LENS, DESIGN METHOD OF THE SAME, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND OPHTHALMIC LENS SET | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | — |
| 18778973 | INTRAOCULAR LENS INJECTOR | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266057 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 46d overdue |
| 18122949 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 35d overdue |
| 18269003 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 30d overdue |
| 18567640 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOUND, PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 22d |
| 18270789 | MASK BLANK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 30d |
| 18285186 | EYEGLASS LENS AND EYEGLASSES | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 46d |
| 19119537 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | — |
| 19077712 | SILVER-CONTAINING POLARIZING GLASS AND OPTICAL ISOLATOR | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 9 |
| 1737 | 9 |
| 3795 | 6 |
| 1763 | 6 |
| 1788 | 2 |
| 1783 | 2 |
| 1787 | 2 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119537 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19077712 | SILVER-CONTAINING POLARIZING GLASS AND OPTICAL ISOLATOR | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1788 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18842470 | ENDOSCOPE ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106762 | ENDOSCOPE | SONG, LI-TING | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18870562 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD IN ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18837757 | OPHTHALMIC LENS, DESIGN METHOD OF THE SAME, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND OPHTHALMIC LENS SET | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18778973 | INTRAOCULAR LENS INJECTOR | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2024 |
| 18776534 | LIGHT IRRADIATING APPARATUS | SMYTH, ANDREW P | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18702056 | ENDOSCOPE WITH INSERTION TUBE HAVING ADJACENT CUTS WITH UNEQUAL SPACING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH AN ENDOSCOPE | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18695518 | ELECTRODE-EQUIPPED ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18692007 | SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | FRASER, STEWART A | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18681934 | MASK BLANK, PHASE SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1737 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18533658 | NEAR-INFRARED ABSORBING GLASS AND NEAR-INFRARED CUT FILTER | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18561499 | MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | LEE, ALEXANDER N | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18560659 | MASK BLANK AND PHASE SHIFT MASK | LEE, ALEXANDER N | 1737 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18277648 | SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18270789 | MASK BLANK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1737 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18266057 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18039192 | MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM-EQUIPPED SUBSTRATE, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1737 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18025461 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | COSGROVE, JAYSON D | 1737 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 17801617 | OPTICAL GLASS, OPTICAL ELEMENT, LIGHT GUIDE PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | AUER, LAURA A | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17793329 | MULTILAYER-REFLECTIVE-FILM-EQUIPPED SUBSTRATE, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
| 17864334 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 16645741 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISK-SHAPED GLASS SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN GLASS SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-GUIDING PLATE | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2020 |
| 18862012 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING SPECTACLE LENS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SPECTACLE LENS, SPECTACLE LENS, AND EYEGLASSES | NIGAM, NATASHA | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18862040 | DESIGN METHOD FOR EYEGLASS LENS, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR EYEGLASS LENS, EYEGLASS LENS, AND EYEGLASSES | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18861327 | ELECTROCHROMIC ELEMENT, LENS FOR SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES, AND MOLD | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18843423 | SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SHAH, SAMIR | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18833238 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOUND, PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18696207 | MONOMER FOR OPTICAL COMPONENT, POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL COMPONENT, CURED PRODUCT, SPECTACLE LENS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MONOMER FOR OPTICAL COMPONENT | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1761 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18688544 | SPECTACLE OPTICAL ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18294081 | SPECTACLE LENS | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18567640 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOUND, PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18285186 | EYEGLASS LENS AND EYEGLASSES | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18284115 | SPECTACLE LENS | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18284137 | SPECTACLE LENS ANTI-FOGGING COMPOSITION AND SPECTACLE LENS | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18263594 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18275033 | INDENO-FUSED NAPHTHOPYRAN COMPOUND PARTICLES, METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18269003 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18269005 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18035367 | SPECTACLE LENS AND SPECTACLES | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18033208 | ELECTROCHROMIC ELEMENT AND SPECTACLE LENS | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18122949 | PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, AND SPECTACLES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18080467 | SPECTACLE LENS305618 | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17954715 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL ARTICLE, OPTICAL ARTICLE AND EYEGLASSES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17781156 | SEMI-FINISHED LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EYEGLASS LENS | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17705593 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION FOR FORMING PROTECTIVE LAYER OF PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE, PHOTOCHROMIC ARTICLE AND EYEGLASSES | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
| 17442783 | SPECTACLE LENS AND SPECTACLES | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2021 |
| 17030072 | LEARNING MODEL GENERATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EYEGLASS LENS SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM | TAN, DAVID H | 2145 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 23, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHoya Corporation has 49 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 19 art units and 38 examiners.
Bijan Ahvazi has the most, with 6 of Hoya Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
