Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optos PLC has 9 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those matters are distributed among 9 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that prosecution activity spans several examination assignments rather than a single recurring channel. This structure can make portfolio-wide coordination more important, particularly where related applications present overlapping technical themes or claim strategies.
KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a disproportionate share of the recorded workload, so counsel should avoid assuming that one examiner’s approach represents the entire portfolio. Reviewing actions by art unit may help identify recurring treatment of claim construction, eligibility, novelty, or obviousness issues.
The technology classification places the work across semiconductor, circuit, and optical subject matter. Responses may benefit from consistent terminology and disclosure support across applications while preserving distinctions tied to each assigned art unit. The distribution also supports tracking prosecution deadlines and amendment positions application by application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | 1 | 79.6% | +26.3% |
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 76.5% | +22.6% |
| LEI, JIE | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 1 | 65.2% | +7.0% |
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.1% |
| EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 1 | 77.6% | +15.3% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.9% | +37.7% |
| DINH, JACK | 1 | 85.0% | +6.5% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712477 | Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 80d overdue |
| 18884958 | Fourier-domain OCT apparatus for Optoretinography | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063808 | Optical coherence tomography instrument and optical coherence tomography method | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18933696 | Noise reduction in ophthalmic images | LEI, JIE | — |
| 18885166 | Multi-modality ophthalmic imaging system and method of imaging a patient's eye | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | — |
| 18428041 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LINE SCAN ALIGNMENT IN SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY | KING, GEORGE G | — |
| 18527560 | Mirror alignment mechanism for ophthalmic imaging systems | DINH, JACK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712477 | Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 80d overdue |
| 19077381 | Processing Techniques for Optoretinography | KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | — |
| 19063808 | Optical coherence tomography instrument and optical coherence tomography method | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18933696 | Noise reduction in ophthalmic images | LEI, JIE | — |
| 18621342 | Line-field Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | — |
| 18428041 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LINE SCAN ALIGNMENT IN SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY | KING, GEORGE G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 7 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077381 | Processing Techniques for Optoretinography | KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19063808 | Optical coherence tomography instrument and optical coherence tomography method | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18933696 | Noise reduction in ophthalmic images | LEI, JIE | 2872 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18885166 | Multi-modality ophthalmic imaging system and method of imaging a patient's eye | RAKOWSKI, CARA E | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18884958 | Fourier-domain OCT apparatus for Optoretinography | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18621342 | Line-field Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System | EDENFIELD, KUEI-JEN L | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18428041 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LINE SCAN ALIGNMENT IN SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18527560 | Mirror alignment mechanism for ophthalmic imaging systems | DINH, JACK | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 17712477 | Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOptos PLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 9 examiners.
Vaisali Rao Koppolu has the most, with 1 of Optos PLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
