Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Manufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The actions involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters, making that examiner the clearest point of repeated assignment in the profile.
The limited art-unit spread permits technical grouping of the matters, while the examiner count indicates that responses may still require distinct prosecution treatment. Counsel can compare claim terminology and cited references within each art unit before deciding whether a common amendment approach is appropriate. The two matters before the busiest examiner warrant coordinated review, but the remaining actions require separate record-based analysis.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2 | 69.9% | +22.1% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.1% | +21.6% |
| COLLINS, JASON M | 1 | 75.0% | +12.9% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +24.9% |
| UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 1 | 73.7% | +18.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259030 | STRAP | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 69d |
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18992013 | MECHANISM FOR MEASURING TIME FOR A TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT, IN PARTICULAR A CHRONOGRAPH MECHANISM | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18559695 | TIMEPIECE COMPONENT MADE OF COLORED FORGED CARBON AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A TIMEPIECE COMPONENT | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | 2844 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18992013 | MECHANISM FOR MEASURING TIME FOR A TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT, IN PARTICULAR A CHRONOGRAPH MECHANISM | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18559695 | TIMEPIECE COMPONENT MADE OF COLORED FORGED CARBON AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A TIMEPIECE COMPONENT | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18259030 | STRAP | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 3677 | §102 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialManufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Sean Phillip Kayes has the most, with 2 of Manufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
