Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nil Technology Aps is actively managing 10 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, indicating a broad range of interactions with USPTO personnel. The portfolio's reach extends across 4 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's semiconductor technologies are categorized into several different specialized fields of examination. This level of activity reflects a significant investment in protecting intellectual property within the optics and circuits sectors.
AUDREY Y CHANG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. While 9 distinct examiners are involved in total, the concentration of 2 actions with the busiest examiner is relatively low compared to the overall volume of 10 pending office actions. The presence of 4 distinct art units requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the varying standards and practices of different USPTO divisions. Nil Technology Aps maintains a substantial presence in the semiconductor space with this distributed workload across multiple examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2 | 46.5% | +20.4% |
| CHUNG, DAVID Y | 1 | 70.4% | +7.4% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 78.2% | +14.3% |
| YI, STELLA KIM | 1 | 71.0% | +28.5% |
| MOSER, SETH DAVID | 1 | 97.8% | +2.6% |
| KIM, RICHARD H | 1 | 81.7% | +5.4% |
| JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 1 | 72.6% | +16.8% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 38.7% | +24.5% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570290 | OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICES INCORPORATING A METALENS TO FACILITATE ZOOMING OPERATIONS | KIM, RICHARD H | 6d |
| 18693410 | EMBEDDED, SLANTED OPTICAL GRATING STRUCTURES | MOSER, SETH DAVID | 22d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102755 | OPTICAL DEVICES THAT INCLUDE A PROTECTED LENS | CHUNG, DAVID Y | — |
| 18868320 | METASTRUCTURES INCLUDING META-ATOMS HAVING OUTWARDLY SLOPING SIDEWALLS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| 18862436 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL LENSES | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18008889 | DIFFUSE ILLUMINATION AND MULTIMODE ILLUMINATION DEVICES | 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286006 | DEVICES INCLUDING AN OPTICAL METASTRUCTURE, AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING METASTRUCTURES | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 14d |
| 17925941 | OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING METASTRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING THE OPTICAL DEVICES | LEI, JIE | 15d |
| 18868320 | METASTRUCTURES INCLUDING META-ATOMS HAVING OUTWARDLY SLOPING SIDEWALLS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| 18862436 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL LENSES | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18853999 | SLANTED OPTICAL GRATINGS | YI, STELLA KIM | — |
| 18712041 | ILLUMINATION MODULES INCLUDING OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO PRODUCE LIGHT STEERING FUNCTIONS OR DIFFERENT ILLUMINATION PATTERNS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18008889 | DIFFUSE ILLUMINATION AND MULTIMODE ILLUMINATION DEVICES | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102755 | OPTICAL DEVICES THAT INCLUDE A PROTECTED LENS | CHUNG, DAVID Y | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18868320 | METASTRUCTURES INCLUDING META-ATOMS HAVING OUTWARDLY SLOPING SIDEWALLS | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18862436 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL LENSES | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18853999 | SLANTED OPTICAL GRATINGS | YI, STELLA KIM | 1742 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18712041 | ILLUMINATION MODULES INCLUDING OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO PRODUCE LIGHT STEERING FUNCTIONS OR DIFFERENT ILLUMINATION PATTERNS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18693410 | EMBEDDED, SLANTED OPTICAL GRATING STRUCTURES | MOSER, SETH DAVID | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18570290 | OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICES INCORPORATING A METALENS TO FACILITATE ZOOMING OPERATIONS | KIM, RICHARD H | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18286006 | DEVICES INCLUDING AN OPTICAL METASTRUCTURE, AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING METASTRUCTURES | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18008889 | DIFFUSE ILLUMINATION AND MULTIMODE ILLUMINATION DEVICES | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17925941 | OPTICAL DEVICES INCLUDING METASTRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING THE OPTICAL DEVICES | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
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