Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Sunny Automotive Optech Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The distribution of 3 actions across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that each pending matter is being handled independently within different specialized groups of the patent office. This distribution means the company must manage three separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and departmental standards, rather than benefiting from a centralized examination process.
CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action is part of the 3 total pending office actions for the portfolio. Since the busiest examiner only manages 1 action while there are 3 distinct examiners in total, the workload is perfectly distributed with no single examiner handling more than 1 case. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company's patent filings are diverse enough to trigger different technical reviews across the 3 distinct art units involved.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | 1 | 84.9% | +21.3% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18987366 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA AND VEHICLE | CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18987366 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA AND VEHICLE | CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | — |
| 18106422 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18987366 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA AND VEHICLE | CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18106422 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNingbo Sunny Automotive Optech Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mustak Choudhury has the most, with 1 of Ningbo Sunny Automotive Optech Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
