Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

11 pending office actions • 11 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 95 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§102 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
7
Communications
64% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ONYEKABA, AMY 1 84.1% +6.3%
CRAWLEY, KEITH L 1 59.0% +26.3%
DANG, PHONG H 1 80.7% +10.3%
LEE JR, KENNETH B 1 85.6% +8.7%
CHIO, TAT CHI 1 73.0% +17.1%
PARK, SANGHYUK 1 71.0% +16.7%
O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN 1 67.9% +3.3%
LAM, NELSON C 1 60.1% +8.9%
NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 1 88.3% +8.5%
LEE, KYOUNG 1 93.2% +5.0%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18402652 TRANSFORMER DEVICE AND DRIVE CIRCUIT NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 112d overdue
18963540 Screen control system DANG, PHONG H 36d overdue
19095005 Touch control method based on display information ONYEKABA, AMY 27d
18919373 Display driver circuit and host processor and related display system for deburn-in compensation LEE JR, KENNETH B 41d
18391664 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE LEE, KYOUNG 57d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18963540 Screen control system DANG, PHONG H 36d overdue
18889357 VIDEO DECODERS AND METHODS FOR LOW-LATENCY DECODING CHIO, TAT CHI 18d overdue
18672037 DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD PARK, SANGHYUK 17d overdue
18974200 DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM CRAWLEY, KEITH L 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2628 1
2626 1
2184 1
2625 1
2486 1
2623 1
2675 1
2627 1
2838 1
2817 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19095005 Touch control method based on display information ONYEKABA, AMY 2628 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 30, 2025
18974200 DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM CRAWLEY, KEITH L 2626 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 09, 2024
18963540 Screen control system DANG, PHONG H 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2024
18919373 Display driver circuit and host processor and related display system for deburn-in compensation LEE JR, KENNETH B 2625 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 17, 2024
18889357 VIDEO DECODERS AND METHODS FOR LOW-LATENCY DECODING CHIO, TAT CHI 2486 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2024
18672037 DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD PARK, SANGHYUK 2623 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18648468 IMAGE PROCESSING IC AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Apr 28, 2024
18646777 DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) PIXEL CIRCUIT ENHANCING LUMINANCE UNIFORMITY LAM, NELSON C 2627 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18402652 TRANSFORMER DEVICE AND DRIVE CIRCUIT NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2024
18391664 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE LEE, KYOUNG 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Dec 21, 2023
17349948 DRIVING DEVICE FOR DRIVING TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL WITH FINGERPRINT SENSING FUNCTION AND DRIVING METHOD FOR TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL MIDKIFF, AARON 2621 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2021

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