Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Omnivision Technologies Inc.

13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 72 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (1)

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%)
12
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (54%)
§102 only5 (38%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
7
Communications
54% of docket
5
Semiconductors
38% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, SINH N 1 23.8% +21.8%
CHEN, CHIA WEI A 1 77.1% +19.3%
VIEAUX, GARY C 1 78.9% +8.5%
JERABEK, KELLY L 1 85.1% +11.4%
DANIELS, ANTHONY J 1 79.5% +17.4%
KHAN, USMAN A 1 74.7% +12.3%
O TOOLE, COLLEEN J 1 57.6% +10.9%
SONG, LI-TING 1 65.1% +38.9%
BHUIYAN, FAYEZ A 1 84.0% +12.1%
TRAN, TIEN 1 88.2% +16.7%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18483501 EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION, INCLUDING EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH IN-PIXEL DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION BASED ON PROBABILISTIC DETERMINATION OF NOISE EVENT OCCURRENCE FIRING RATES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS BHUIYAN, FAYEZ A 30d overdue
18461320 IMAGE SENSOR WITH OPTICAL STRUCTURE FOR FLARE REDUCTION TRAN, TIEN 34d
18938208 HYBRID IMAGE SENSORS WITH ON-CHIP IMAGE DEBLUR JERABEK, KELLY L 72d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18970894 MULTIPLE READ IMAGE SENSORS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THE SAME TRAN, SINH N 14d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18918591 HYBRID IMAGING SENSOR WITH HIGH SAMPLING POINT DISTRIBUTION DANIELS, ANTHONY J 35d overdue
18483501 EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION, INCLUDING EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH IN-PIXEL DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION BASED ON PROBABILISTIC DETERMINATION OF NOISE EVENT OCCURRENCE FIRING RATES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS BHUIYAN, FAYEZ A 30d overdue
18919339 HYBRID IMAGING SENSOR WITH SHARED READOUT KHAN, USMAN A 9d overdue
18778418 Dual View Endoscope SONG, LI-TING 9d overdue
18970894 MULTIPLE READ IMAGE SENSORS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THE SAME TRAN, SINH N 14d
18461320 IMAGE SENSOR WITH OPTICAL STRUCTURE FOR FLARE REDUCTION TRAN, TIEN 34d
18821508 CHARGE PUMP, CHARGE PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A CHARGE PUMP O TOOLE, COLLEEN J 40d
18938080 HYBRID IMAGE SENSORS WITH VIDEO FRAME INTERPOLATION CHEN, CHIA WEI A 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2637 4
2638 2
2699 1
2849 1
3795 1
2812 1
2817 1
2891 1
2871 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18970894 MULTIPLE READ IMAGE SENSORS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THE SAME TRAN, SINH N 2637 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 05, 2024
18938080 HYBRID IMAGE SENSORS WITH VIDEO FRAME INTERPOLATION CHEN, CHIA WEI A 2637 Other Non-Final OA 48d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18938125 METHODS FOR OPERATING HYBRID IMAGE SENSORS HAVING DIFFERENT CIS-TO-EVS RESOLUTIONS VIEAUX, GARY C 2638 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2024
18938208 HYBRID IMAGE SENSORS WITH ON-CHIP IMAGE DEBLUR JERABEK, KELLY L 2699 §102 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18918591 HYBRID IMAGING SENSOR WITH HIGH SAMPLING POINT DISTRIBUTION DANIELS, ANTHONY J 2637 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2024
18919339 HYBRID IMAGING SENSOR WITH SHARED READOUT KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2024
18821508 CHARGE PUMP, CHARGE PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A CHARGE PUMP O TOOLE, COLLEEN J 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18778418 Dual View Endoscope SONG, LI-TING 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18483501 EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION, INCLUDING EVENT VISION SENSORS WITH IN-PIXEL DEFECT PIXEL SUPPRESSION BASED ON PROBABILISTIC DETERMINATION OF NOISE EVENT OCCURRENCE FIRING RATES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS BHUIYAN, FAYEZ A 2638 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2023
18461320 IMAGE SENSOR WITH OPTICAL STRUCTURE FOR FLARE REDUCTION TRAN, TIEN 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18131267 SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE WITH PASSIVATED FULL DEEP-TRENCH ISOLATION NARAGHI, ALI 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18171805 Image Sensor Having Glue Cavity WRIGHT, TUCKER J 2891 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2023
18098649 COMPOUND LENS NGUYEN, LAUREN 2871 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 18, 2023

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