Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
25 pending office actions • 16 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 110 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pixart Imaging Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area, currently featuring 24 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 24 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio where each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The prosecution is spread across 16 distinct art units, indicating a high degree of technical diversity within the company's communications-related filings.
PHAM, LONG D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action accounts for a portion of the 24 total pending office actions. Since the workload is perfectly balanced among the 24 distinct examiners, the portfolio's progress is subject to a very broad range of individual examination perspectives.
Practitioners should be prepared for a highly decentralized prosecution environment, as the 24 pending office actions are spread across 16 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's filings span many different technical classifications at the patent office. With 24 distinct examiners involved, there is no opportunity to leverage examiner-specific insights across multiple applications, requiring a unique and tailored approach for each of the 24 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (8%) |
| §103 only | 9 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, LONG D | 1 | 77.2% | +15.7% |
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 67.9% | +11.8% |
| CERULLO, LILIANA P | 1 | 74.8% | +20.4% |
| WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 1 | 71.3% | +14.4% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +22.1% |
| CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | 1 | 88.7% | +13.6% |
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 78.6% | +19.5% |
| COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 1 | 84.0% | +11.3% |
| JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | 1 | 88.2% | +7.0% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18928227 | OBJECT POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEM AND OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237891 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM AND LIGHT GATING LAYER | FLOHRE, JASON A | 40d |
| 18473429 | PHYSIOLOGICAL DETECTION DEVICE AND WEARABLE DEVICE WITH REDUCED MOTION ARTIFACT | LAU, MICHAEL J | 53d |
| 18401776 | CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE | JEN, MINGJEN | 56d |
| 19181297 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS CLEANER | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | — |
| 18977972 | MOVEMENT DIRECTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT VOLUME COMPUTATION SYSTEM | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — |
| 18924142 | MECHANICAL KEY COMPONENT AND MECHANICAL KEYBOARD | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — |
| 18898694 | WEARABLE DEVICE WITH BLOOD OXYGEN MEASUREMENT FUNCTION AND BLOOD OXYGEN MEASUREMENT METHOD | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18792502 | STEERING WHEEL DEVICE WITH HANDS-OFF DETECTION (HOD) | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19250070 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH CONTROL | PHAM, LONG D | 27d |
| 19205033 | LIGHTING TOUCHPAD | CERULLO, LILIANA P | 50d |
| 19230154 | DETECTION SYSTEM SENDING CALCULATED DATA AND RAW DATA | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | — |
| 19181297 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS CLEANER | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | — |
| 19008185 | EARBUD WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 18977972 | MOVEMENT DIRECTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT VOLUME COMPUTATION SYSTEM | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — |
| 18948569 | SMOKE DETECTOR REDUCING FALSE ALARM RATE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
| 18928227 | OBJECT POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEM AND OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250070 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH CONTROL | PHAM, LONG D | 2623 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19230154 | DETECTION SYSTEM SENDING CALCULATED DATA AND RAW DATA | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19205033 | LIGHTING TOUCHPAD | CERULLO, LILIANA P | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19181297 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS CLEANER | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19008185 | EARBUD WITH TEMPERATURE SENSING | MOONEY, JAMES K | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18977972 | MOVEMENT DIRECTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT VOLUME COMPUTATION SYSTEM | CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18948569 | SMOKE DETECTOR REDUCING FALSE ALARM RATE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18928227 | OBJECT POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEM AND OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 2675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18924142 | MECHANICAL KEY COMPONENT AND MECHANICAL KEYBOARD | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18898694 | WEARABLE DEVICE WITH BLOOD OXYGEN MEASUREMENT FUNCTION AND BLOOD OXYGEN MEASUREMENT METHOD | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18894115 | SENSING DRIVING WHEEL AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | JOHNSON, VICKY A | 3617 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18795172 | CONTROL CHIP, SENSING CHIP AND SENSING SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD WITH INFORMATION SECURITY MECHANISM | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 2491 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18792502 | STEERING WHEEL DEVICE WITH HANDS-OFF DETECTION (HOD) | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18761234 | OPTICAL DATA SENSING DEVICE OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE WHICH CAN IMPROVE MOTION ARTIFACT ISSUE | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18743319 | APPARATUS HAVING GESTURE SENSOR | HATCH, DAVID P | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18740549 | HIM DEVICE SETTING METHOD AND HIM DEVICE OUTPUT ADJUSTING METHOD | NGUYEN, JIMMY H | 2626 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18594042 | LIGHT GUIDE WITH TWO REFLECTIVE SURFACES AND NAVIGATION SENSOR USING THE SAME | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18425562 | OPTICAL SMOKE DETECTOR WITH LIGHT TRAP, AND LIGHT GUIDING AND BLOCKING MEMBER THEREOF | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18413320 | WEARABLE DEVICE DETECTING OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA LEVEL INDEX AND INDEX DETERMINING METHOD THEREOF | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18411033 | SIGNAL CALIBRATION METHOD AND RELATED SMART WEARABLE DEVICE | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18401776 | CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18386051 | IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SENSOR MODULE, AND METHOD FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION | LEMIEUX, IAN L | 2669 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18473429 | PHYSIOLOGICAL DETECTION DEVICE AND WEARABLE DEVICE WITH REDUCED MOTION ARTIFACT | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18237891 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM AND LIGHT GATING LAYER | FLOHRE, JASON A | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18118152 | WEARABLE DEVICE | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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