Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pixieray OY has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners but are all contained within 1 distinct art unit. This unique distribution means that while every pending action is being reviewed by a different person, they are all working within the same technical group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is BULLINGTON, ROBERT P, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This is one of the 7 total pending actions currently active for the portfolio. Because each of the 7 distinct examiners is only handling one action, the company's prosecution experience is highly fragmented across many different individuals. The 1 pending office action assigned to BULLINGTON, ROBERT P is the only one for that examiner.
The concentration of all 7 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a very narrow and specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This allows for a deep but singular engagement with one specific area of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field, even as the 7 actions are processed by 7 different examiners. Practitioners must manage 7 separate examiner relationships within this single art unit.
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 only | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 1 | 42.7% | +30.3% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
| GOODWIN, SCHQUITA D | 1 | 67.3% | +13.7% |
| MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 1 | 85.9% | +3.2% |
| DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 1 | 79.1% | +17.0% |
| HENZE, DAVID V | 1 | 69.7% | +23.3% |
| PICHLER, MARIN | 1 | 63.3% | +9.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068161 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ATTAINMENT OF FLOW STATE FOR ACTIVITY BY USER | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | — |
| 19010566 | CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY CORRECTION IN OPTICAL APPARATUSES | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18898907 | EYE-TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | — |
| 18489151 | CHARGING SYSTEM | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489055 | EYEWEAR SYSTEM | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 141d overdue |
| 19068161 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ATTAINMENT OF FLOW STATE FOR ACTIVITY BY USER | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | — |
| 19010566 | CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY CORRECTION IN OPTICAL APPARATUSES | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18940309 | PAIRABLE DEVICE | GOODWIN, SCHQUITA D | — |
| 18489151 | CHARGING SYSTEM | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068161 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ATTAINMENT OF FLOW STATE FOR ACTIVITY BY USER | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19010566 | CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY CORRECTION IN OPTICAL APPARATUSES | NIGAM, NATASHA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18940309 | PAIRABLE DEVICE | GOODWIN, SCHQUITA D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18898907 | EYE-TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18489055 | EYEWEAR SYSTEM | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 141d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18489151 | CHARGING SYSTEM | HENZE, DAVID V | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18455664 | SIMULTANEOUS EYE-TRACKING CALIBRATION AND VISUAL ACUITY CHECK | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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