Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pacific Light & Hologram Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means the company is engaging with two separate perspectives during the examination process. The workload is also divided between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's optical or mechanical technologies are being reviewed in different specialized sections of the patent office. This distribution suggests a level of technical variety in the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 2, this examiner manages a significant portion of the company's active cases. For a practitioner, this means that the decisions made by PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH will have a substantial influence on the portfolio's current trajectory. The need to navigate 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to different procedural requirements. The outcome of these 2 pending office actions will be vital for the company's intellectual property goals in the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.6% | +20.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18235864 | RELAY SYSTEMS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583310 | Light Field Display System for Video Games and Electronic Sports | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 38d overdue |
| 18235864 | RELAY SYSTEMS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18583310 | Light Field Display System for Video Games and Electronic Sports | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | DP | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18235864 | RELAY SYSTEMS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPacific Light & Hologram Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Damon Joseph Pierce has the most, with 1 of Pacific Light & Hologram Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
