Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Letinar Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners and art units means that each of the company's pending communications matters is being handled by a different person in a different department.
CHEN, FRANK S is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved in only 2 pending office actions, the company faces a decentralized prosecution landscape. Each examiner likely applies their own interpretation of communications standards within their respective art units. This requires the company to maintain a flexible strategy that can adapt to the different requirements of 2 separate examiners and departments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, FRANK S | 1 | 82.2% | +8.3% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880529 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING EXPANDED EYE BOX | CHEN, FRANK S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646722 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR AUGMENTED REALITY CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HIGH LUMINOUS UNIFORMITY | PICHLER, MARIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880529 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING EXPANDED EYE BOX | CHEN, FRANK S | 2611 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18646722 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR AUGMENTED REALITY CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HIGH LUMINOUS UNIFORMITY | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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