Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 14 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 74 patents granted in the last 365 days
OmniVision Technologies Inc. has 17 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 16 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, showing broad examiner dispersion with repeated activity in some technical groups.
PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can review those matters for common examination themes, then use the art-unit distribution to assess whether similar claim language is being treated consistently across the rest of the portfolio.
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 | 7 (37%) |
| §102 only | 3 (16%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | 2 | 78.4% | +13.6% |
| BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 1 | 73.6% | +18.2% |
| DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | 1 | 83.6% | +15.4% |
| NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 1 | 83.0% | +6.4% |
| SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 1 | 72.0% | +20.0% |
| YE, LIN | 1 | 34.2% | +28.1% |
| PHAM, NHUT HUY | 1 | 82.3% | +23.1% |
| AUTORE JR, MARIO ANDRES | 1 | 56.5% | +33.2% |
| BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | 1 | 76.3% | +11.3% |
| FIN, CAROLYN | 1 | 61.7% | +30.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001419 | METHOD OF DETECTING A DEFOCUS OF AN IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — |
| 18965318 | Quad-Photodiode (QPD) Image Deblurring Using Convolutional Neural Network | PHAM, NHUT HUY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778418 | Dual View Endoscope | SONG, LI-TING | 9d overdue |
| 18098649 | COMPOUND LENS | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 34d |
| 18988611 | NOISE REDUCTION FOR MIXED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | — |
| 18905033 | TORIC-MICROLENS IMAGE SENSOR | AUTORE JR, MARIO ANDRES | — |
| 18804588 | Image Sensing Module with an Extending Substrate | FIN, CAROLYN | — |
| 18752633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CURVED-SURFACE IMAGE SENSOR | SEVEN, EVREN | — |
| 18354318 | Multichannel Integrated Endoscope System | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970894 | MULTIPLE READ IMAGE SENSORS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THE SAME | YE, LIN | 14d |
| 19175657 | DEEP N-WELL DRIVEN RAMP BUFFER | PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | — |
| 19091226 | Photovoltaic Pixel Circuit In Forward Bias | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | — |
| 19001419 | METHOD OF DETECTING A DEFOCUS OF AN IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — |
| 18978344 | MEDICAL GRADE COLOR FILTERS | SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | — |
| 18968153 | COLOR CORRECTION METHOD FOR FILTER-LESS PIXELS | PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | — |
| 18965318 | Quad-Photodiode (QPD) Image Deblurring Using Convolutional Neural Network | PHAM, NHUT HUY | — |
| 18905033 | TORIC-MICROLENS IMAGE SENSOR | AUTORE JR, MARIO ANDRES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 3795 | 2 |
| 2812 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2638 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175657 | DEEP N-WELL DRIVEN RAMP BUFFER | PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | 2637 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19091226 | Photovoltaic Pixel Circuit In Forward Bias | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 2878 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19001419 | METHOD OF DETECTING A DEFOCUS OF AN IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | 2638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 |
| 18988611 | NOISE REDUCTION FOR MIXED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18978344 | MEDICAL GRADE COLOR FILTERS | SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 2639 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18970894 | MULTIPLE READ IMAGE SENSORS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THE SAME | YE, LIN | 2637 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18968153 | COLOR CORRECTION METHOD FOR FILTER-LESS PIXELS | PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER K | 2637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18965318 | Quad-Photodiode (QPD) Image Deblurring Using Convolutional Neural Network | PHAM, NHUT HUY | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18905033 | TORIC-MICROLENS IMAGE SENSOR | AUTORE JR, MARIO ANDRES | 2897 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18830562 | COMPOUND LENS | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | 2871 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18804588 | Image Sensing Module with an Extending Substrate | FIN, CAROLYN | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18801310 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | ARMAND, MARC ANTHONY | 2813 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18778418 | Dual View Endoscope | SONG, LI-TING | 3795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18752633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CURVED-SURFACE IMAGE SENSOR | SEVEN, EVREN | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18656194 | STACKED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH METAL PAD FOR REDUCED VOLTAGE DROP | LASASSO, VICTOR JOSEPH | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18354318 | Multichannel Integrated Endoscope System | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18131267 | SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE WITH PASSIVATED FULL DEEP-TRENCH ISOLATION | NARAGHI, ALI | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18177684 | STAGED BIASED DEEP TRENCH ISOLATION (DTI) STRUCTURE FOR HIGH FULL WELL CAPACITY (FWC) | WIEGAND, TYLER J | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18098649 | COMPOUND LENS | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOmniVision Technologies Inc. has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 18 examiners.
Christopher K Peterson has the most, with 2 of OmniVision Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
