Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions distributed across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio shows a broad distribution of work, as these actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across a corresponding number of distinct art units. This ratio between actions and examiners indicates that no pending matters are currently being reviewed by the same individual.
LEE, MATTHEW Y is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are currently managing only 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that no single examiner or art unit currently holds a majority of the company's active prosecution matters, requiring the applicant to navigate multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously. The involvement of multiple distinct art units further suggests that the company's active applications may span different specialized sub-fields within the semiconductor and optics sector. Such a decentralized structure may require a more varied set of arguments to address the diverse technical perspectives of the different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MATTHEW Y | 1 | 81.5% | +18.3% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
| WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | 1 | 62.3% | +37.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17635126 | UNDER-SCREEN CAMERA ASSEMBLY, CAMERA MODULE, OPTICAL LENS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 9d |
| 18713235 | Drive Component and Zoom Camera Module | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17635126 | UNDER-SCREEN CAMERA ASSEMBLY, CAMERA MODULE, OPTICAL LENS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 9d |
| 18713235 | Drive Component and Zoom Camera Module | LEE, MATTHEW Y | — |
| 17606136 | UNDER-SCREEN CAMERA ASSEMBLY, AND CORRESPONDING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY SCREEN AND TERMINAL DEVICE | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713235 | Drive Component and Zoom Camera Module | LEE, MATTHEW Y | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 17635126 | UNDER-SCREEN CAMERA ASSEMBLY, CAMERA MODULE, OPTICAL LENS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
| 17606136 | UNDER-SCREEN CAMERA ASSEMBLY, AND CORRESPONDING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY SCREEN AND TERMINAL DEVICE | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
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