Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
15 pending office actions • 12 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 108 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novatek Microelectronics Corp. maintains 18 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. Each of these 18 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, as there are 18 distinct examiners. These examiners are spread across 13 distinct art units. ILUYOMADE, IFEDAYO B is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The 13 distinct art units indicate the technical variety within the company's communications filings.
With 18 distinct examiners for the 18 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This means that every pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to navigate 18 different examiner styles. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to ILUYOMADE, IFEDAYO B represents a small portion of the 18 pending office actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of each examiner to ensure successful outcomes.
The 13 distinct art units suggest that the portfolio touches on several specialized groups within the USPTO. Managing 18 pending office actions across these units requires an understanding of the specific technical standards applied by each group. Because the 18 distinct examiners are spread across 13 distinct art units, there is significant variety in the technical scrutiny applied to the applications. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and art unit trends.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (7%) |
| §103 only | 8 (53%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCLOONE, PETER D | 1 | 82.9% | +3.3% |
| MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 1 | 77.2% | +10.4% |
| SHEN, YUZHEN | 1 | 70.9% | +12.4% |
| GILES, EBONI N | 1 | 63.3% | +8.3% |
| SEYE, ABDOU K | 1 | 82.7% | +27.0% |
| JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.0% | +19.0% |
| LEE JR, KENNETH B | 1 | 85.7% | +8.7% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 1 | 72.9% | +17.6% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.3% | +9.9% |
| BOCAR, DONNA V | 1 | 57.7% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19344542 | Method for display driver circuit for partial update | MCLOONE, PETER D | — |
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | — |
| 18830626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCSESING DEVICE WITH OBJECT DETECTION | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919373 | Display driver circuit and host processor and related display system for deburn-in compensation | LEE JR, KENNETH B | 41d |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | — |
| 18614731 | EYE-DIAGRAM INDEX ANALYTIC METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | — |
| 18215339 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18889357 | VIDEO DECODERS AND METHODS FOR LOW-LATENCY DECODING | CHIO, TAT CHI | 18d overdue |
| 19174911 | Method of driving display panel and display driver circuit and gate driving circuit using the same | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | — |
| 19082182 | DRIVING DEVICE FOR DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL | SHEN, YUZHEN | — |
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | — |
| 18951713 | CONTROL METHOD FOR REDUCING OPERATING TEMPERATURE AND DRIVING DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 2 |
| 2627 | 2 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| 2198 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19344542 | Method for display driver circuit for partial update | MCLOONE, PETER D | 2621 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19174911 | Method of driving display panel and display driver circuit and gate driving circuit using the same | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19082182 | DRIVING DEVICE FOR DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18964728 | Control circuit for feed-forward equalizer capable of impedance calibration | GILES, EBONI N | 2622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18955816 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MULTI-PROCESSES AND MULTI-THREADS | SEYE, ABDOU K | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18951713 | CONTROL METHOD FOR REDUCING OPERATING TEMPERATURE AND DRIVING DEVICE | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18919373 | Display driver circuit and host processor and related display system for deburn-in compensation | LEE JR, KENNETH B | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 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 |
| 18830626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCSESING DEVICE WITH OBJECT DETECTION | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18817111 | PROCESSOR AND PIXEL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18648623 | OPERATION METHOD OF A VOLTAGE CONVERTER | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18646777 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) PIXEL CIRCUIT ENHANCING LUMINANCE UNIFORMITY | LAM, NELSON C | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18614731 | EYE-DIAGRAM INDEX ANALYTIC METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2024 |
| 18398063 | SOURCE DRIVER | BONSHOCK, DENNIS G | 3992 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18215339 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | 2800 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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