Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Montres Breguet S.A. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that some examiners are handling multiple matters for the company. For a practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the individual tendencies of 3 different people while looking for potential overlaps in their examination of the company's optics-related innovations.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This focus on a single art unit within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector is notable, as it suggests that the company's active applications are technically similar enough to be grouped together by the patent office. Working within 1 art unit allows the legal team to focus on a specific set of administrative procedures and technical standards, which can lead to more consistent results across the 5 pending office actions.
HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration of 2 actions under HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL makes this individual a key figure in the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's previous rulings to better anticipate potential objections and ensure that the responses for both pending matters are aligned with the examiner's specific technical expectations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 3 | 90.7% | +1.9% |
| HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2 | 84.8% | +6.7% |
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 1 | 69.9% | +22.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17884883 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A SUCCESSION OF INDICATIONS OF A TIME VARIABLE FOR A TIMEPIECE | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 34d |
| 18006409 | SYMPATHETIC TIMEPIECE ASSEMBLY | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | — |
| 17815785 | DIAPHRAGM-TYPE DEPLOYMENT DEVICE, PARTICULARLY FOR HOROLOGY | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695542 | HOROLOGICAL DISPLAY MECHANISM | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 22d |
| 18973416 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT OF A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MECHANISM COMPRISING A MASS | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18953639 | ARRANGEMENT OF A DISPLAY MODULE ON A PLATE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973416 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT OF A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MECHANISM COMPRISING A MASS | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18973416 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT OF A HOROLOGICAL REGULATING MECHANISM COMPRISING A MASS | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18953639 | ARRANGEMENT OF A DISPLAY MODULE ON A PLATE | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2831 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18695542 | HOROLOGICAL DISPLAY MECHANISM | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 2831 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18006409 | SYMPATHETIC TIMEPIECE ASSEMBLY | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2831 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17884883 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A SUCCESSION OF INDICATIONS OF A TIME VARIABLE FOR A TIMEPIECE | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
| 17815785 | DIAPHRAGM-TYPE DEPLOYMENT DEVICE, PARTICULARLY FOR HOROLOGY | JOHNSTON, KEVIN ANDREW | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMontres Breguet S.A. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Kevin Andrew Johnston has the most, with 3 of Montres Breguet S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
