Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
36 pending office actions • 12 art units • 36 examiners • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is managing 36 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution effort is distributed across 12 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical sub-specialties. Notably, the portfolio involves 36 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending actions. This distribution suggests that the workload is spread across the various individuals at the USPTO. Practitioners should prepare for a variety of examination styles across these different units.
KRYUKOVA, ERIN is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, a figure that is shared by every other examiner currently assigned to the portfolio. This lack of examiner overlap means that prosecution strategies cannot rely on previous experience with a specific examiner on other concurrent files. The 12 distinct art units provide the only structural grouping for these separate examiner interactions. With this many distinct examiners to coordinate, the company faces a fragmented landscape for its current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 3 (8%) |
| §103 only | 9 (25%) |
| §102 only | 5 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRYUKOVA, ERIN | 1 | 64.3% | +29.0% |
| GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 1 | 67.8% | +7.5% |
| KING, MONICA C | 1 | 84.6% | +6.6% |
| PHAM, TOAN NGOC | 1 | 86.4% | +12.3% |
| RICHARDSON, JANY | 1 | 90.9% | +5.9% |
| TRAN, MINH | 1 | 86.3% | +15.9% |
| PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.2% | +26.5% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| TRAN, ANH Q | 1 | 90.2% | +4.9% |
| KIM, SEOKJIN | 1 | 78.1% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281832 | ROAD SURFACE DRAWING DEVICE | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18147121 | NOZZLE, NOZZLE ASSEMBLY, AND CLEANER DEVICE | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 180d overdue |
| 18699064 | CLEANER | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 169d overdue |
| 18709428 | SENSING SYSTEM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 13d |
| 18709725 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 34d |
| 19301496 | VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM | KING, MONICA C | — |
| 19252091 | VEHICLE LAMP APPARATUS | RICHARDSON, JANY | — |
| 19229514 | VEHICLE LAMP | TRAN, MINH | — |
| 18730981 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | TRAN, ANH Q | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19164397 | VEHICLE LAMP | KRYUKOVA, ERIN | — |
| 19281832 | ROAD SURFACE DRAWING DEVICE | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — |
| 19229514 | VEHICLE LAMP | TRAN, MINH | — |
| 19120393 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | — |
| 19106902 | CLEANING DEVICE | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18995549 | ROAD SURFACE RENDERING DEVICE | KIM, SEOKJIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 4 |
| 2845 | 2 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19164397 | VEHICLE LAMP | KRYUKOVA, ERIN | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19160762 | HOUSING COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR DESTRUCTING HOUSING COMPONENT | GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 2875 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19301496 | VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM | KING, MONICA C | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19281832 | ROAD SURFACE DRAWING DEVICE | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19252091 | VEHICLE LAMP APPARATUS | RICHARDSON, JANY | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19229514 | VEHICLE LAMP | TRAN, MINH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19120393 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | PEERCE, MATTHEW J | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19106902 | CLEANING DEVICE | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18730981 | VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | TRAN, ANH Q | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18995549 | ROAD SURFACE RENDERING DEVICE | KIM, SEOKJIN | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18878334 | VEHICLE LAMP | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18878221 | VEHICULAR HEADLAMP | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18869137 | CLEANING DEVICE | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18722932 | IMAGE IRRADIATION DEVICE | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18861115 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE LAMP | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18845708 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION CIRCUIT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE | HALIYUR, PADMA | 2639 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18838060 | OPTICAL MEMBER, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18799325 | CALIBRATION METHOD AND CALIBRATION DEVICE | CHEN, JOSHUA NMN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18837263 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18834898 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | AYUB, HINA F | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18730529 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18729370 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18722939 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE | CHOI, JACOB Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18720332 | IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18712215 | IMAGE RADIATION DEVICE | KHALID, OMER | 2422 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18709725 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18709428 | SENSING SYSTEM | BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID | 2665 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18707308 | IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE | BROOKS, JERRY L. | 2882 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18706239 | ACTIVE SENSOR, OBJECT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE LAMP | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18699064 | CLEANER | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1711 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 169d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18681391 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, RANGE-IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND MONITORING DEVICE | HULKA, JAMES R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18577604 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT | ABEL, GARY ROBERT | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18285311 | MICROLENS ARRAY, VEHICLE LAMP USING MICROLENS ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MICROLENS ARRAY | JONES, JAMES | 2872 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18282407 | LIGHT REFLECTING DEVICE, SENSOR DEVICE, AND LIGHTING DEVICE | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18360257 | PHOSPHOR, FLUORESCENT MEMBER, AND LIGHT EMITTING MODULE | LOEWE, ROBERT S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18147121 | NOZZLE, NOZZLE ASSEMBLY, AND CLEANER DEVICE | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 180d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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