Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 08, 2026

Optoma Corporation

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
3
Communications
43% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OWYANG, MICHELLE N 1 76.1% +29.4%
ZHENG, XUEMEI 1 84.8% +13.8%
PIHULIC, DANIEL T 1 87.3% -6.3%
TITCOMB, WILLIAM D 1 83.5% +13.7%
SHEN, YUZHEN 1 70.7% +13.5%
SOE, KYAW Z 1 89.7% +9.6%
JONES, CARISSA ANNE 1 80.0% +30.0%

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
18346869 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTE VIDEO CONFERENCE JONES, CARISSA ANNE 3d overdue
19071658 PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ZHENG, XUEMEI
19006228 DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTION PIHULIC, DANIEL T
18813054 VIDEO-AUDIO SYSTEM AND VIDEO-AUDIO INTERACTIVE METHOD TITCOMB, WILLIAM D
18544447 SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING A COMMUNICATION LINK SOE, KYAW Z

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
19091847 LEARNING SYSTEM AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF OWYANG, MICHELLE N 32d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18637460 DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD SHEN, YUZHEN 58d overdue
19091847 LEARNING SYSTEM AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF OWYANG, MICHELLE N 32d overdue
18346869 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTE VIDEO CONFERENCE JONES, CARISSA ANNE 3d overdue
19071658 PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ZHENG, XUEMEI
18813054 VIDEO-AUDIO SYSTEM AND VIDEO-AUDIO INTERACTIVE METHOD TITCOMB, WILLIAM D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2168 1
2629 1
2623 1
2412 1
2691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19091847 LEARNING SYSTEM AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2025
19071658 PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ZHENG, XUEMEI 2629 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 05, 2025
19006228 DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTION PIHULIC, DANIEL T §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 31, 2024
18813054 VIDEO-AUDIO SYSTEM AND VIDEO-AUDIO INTERACTIVE METHOD TITCOMB, WILLIAM D §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18637460 DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD SHEN, YUZHEN 2623 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18544447 SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING A COMMUNICATION LINK SOE, KYAW Z 2412 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2023
18346869 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTE VIDEO CONFERENCE JONES, CARISSA ANNE 2691 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023

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