Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imax Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which indicates some level of examiner overlap within the portfolio. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience involves a small group of individuals, allowing for some consistency in examiner interactions.
The 4 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the technical subject matter of the company's current filings is divided between two specialized groups at the patent office. For a patent practitioner, this requires navigating the technical standards and examination cultures of 2 distinct art units while managing the 3 distinct examiners involved.
LE, BAO-LUAN Q is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This represents half of the portfolio's total pending workload. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners, making LE, BAO-LUAN Q the most influential figure in the company's current prosecution efforts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2 | 52.4% | +16.4% |
| MONSHI, SAMIRA | 1 | 80.0% | +6.0% |
| ROSWELL, MICHAEL | 1 | 65.1% | +21.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223998 | LIGHT CONDITIONING OF DIRECT VIEW DISPLAY FOR CINEMA | MONSHI, SAMIRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578767 | ADJUSTABLE LENS APERTURE ELEMENT IN A PROJECTION LENS | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 50d overdue |
| 19009059 | ENHANCING IMAGE DATA WITH APPEARANCE CONTROLS | ROSWELL, MICHAEL | — |
| 17569916 | Cinema Light Emitting Screen and Sound System | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 2 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223998 | LIGHT CONDITIONING OF DIRECT VIEW DISPLAY FOR CINEMA | MONSHI, SAMIRA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19009059 | ENHANCING IMAGE DATA WITH APPEARANCE CONTROLS | ROSWELL, MICHAEL | 3992 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18578767 | ADJUSTABLE LENS APERTURE ELEMENT IN A PROJECTION LENS | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17569916 | Cinema Light Emitting Screen and Sound System | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2022 |
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