Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Central University maintains 14 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is highly distributed, as there are 14 distinct examiners assigned to these 14 actions. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a broad exposure to different examination styles. The portfolio is active across 8 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of semiconductor and optical research. DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This confirms that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the 14 pending office actions. The 8 distinct art units provide a wide organizational footprint within the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for 14 different sets of examiner preferences across the 8 distinct art units involved in these cases. Such a high number of 14 distinct examiners ensures that the university's patent strategy is tested against a wide variety of perspectives. The distribution across 8 distinct art units also means that the university is not overly sensitive to the backlog of any single unit. With DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT only handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, the portfolio remains remarkably decentralized.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §102 only | 3 (23%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | 1 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.7% | +17.9% |
| RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 1 | 70.9% | +14.6% |
| BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | 1 | 90.7% | +4.9% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
| CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 1 | 74.0% | +26.5% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.2% | +9.5% |
| LEE, PAUL CHANG | 1 | 75.1% | +14.0% |
| MUHAMMAD, KEY | 1 | 64.0% | +23.9% |
| BEATTY, COLLIN X | 1 | 82.1% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365203 | VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 149d overdue |
| 19024809 | AUTOMATIC ANTI-GLARE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — |
| 19024432 | WEARABLE FUNDUS EXAMINATION DEVICE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424850 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL ELEMENT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 53d |
| 18902847 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| 18671208 | WAFER-SCALE LAYERED TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL TRANSFER METHOD | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — |
| 18638873 | HIGH THROUGHPUT LENSLESS IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF | PATEL, PINALBEN V | — |
| 18142035 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS DETECTION | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | — |
| 18103546 | Multi-Electrode Device Using Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array with Improved Electro-to-Optical Frequency Response | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365203 | VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 149d overdue |
| 18650147 | OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD AND OSCILLATOR PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 15d overdue |
| 18635822 | VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO AVOID GHOST NOISE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 2d overdue |
| 18424850 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL ELEMENT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 53d |
| 19024809 | AUTOMATIC ANTI-GLARE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — |
| 19024432 | WEARABLE FUNDUS EXAMINATION DEVICE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | — |
| 18902847 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — |
| 18667485 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024809 | AUTOMATIC ANTI-GLARE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024432 | WEARABLE FUNDUS EXAMINATION DEVICE | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18902847 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18671208 | WAFER-SCALE LAYERED TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL TRANSFER METHOD | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18667485 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18650147 | OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD AND OSCILLATOR PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 3729 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18638873 | HIGH THROUGHPUT LENSLESS IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18635822 | VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO AVOID GHOST NOISE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 2871 | §102 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18424850 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL ELEMENT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Jan 28, 2024 |
| 18365203 | VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM | BEATTY, COLLIN X | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18216377 | MIXED REALITY RENDERING SYSTEM | HE, WEIMING | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18142035 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS DETECTION | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18103546 | Multi-Electrode Device Using Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array with Improved Electro-to-Optical Frequency Response | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
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