Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metalenz Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused area of current patent activity. The focus on 1 art unit indicates that the company's active patent office interaction is limited to a specific technical classification within the broader semiconductor and optics field.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, CHAPEL, DEREK S. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, CHAPEL, DEREK S is the sole individual responsible for reviewing the company's active filings. This creates a highly focused prosecution environment where the company's current patent goals are tied to a single examiner relationship. With only 1 examiner managing 1 action, there is no diversity of examiner perspective in the company's current pending portfolio, requiring a very targeted approach to this one specific negotiation. The outcome of this single action will determine the company's immediate success in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +22.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078090 | Polarization Sorting Metasurface Microlens Array Device | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078090 | Polarization Sorting Metasurface Microlens Array Device | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMetalenz Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Derek S Chapel has the most, with 1 of Metalenz Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
