Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reald Spark LLC is managing 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating a lack of concentration in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. For a practitioner, this means that every active matter is being handled by a different individual, requiring the company to navigate five separate prosecution styles simultaneously. The matters are concentrated within 3 distinct art units, reflecting some technical overlap in the company's semiconductor filings.
HUNTER, MISHAWN N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner only handles 1 pending office action, the workload is perfectly distributed across the 5 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that while the technical areas are focused within 3 distinct art units, the personnel reviewing the cases are diverse. Practitioners should be prepared to manage a decentralized prosecution strategy, as no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, MISHAWN N | 1 | 78.3% | +14.3% |
| QURESHI, MARIAM | 1 | 75.5% | +22.5% |
| GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 1 | 59.2% | +20.8% |
| THOMAS, BRANDI N | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| WILSON, PAISLEY L | 1 | 59.2% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734193 | Anamorphic directional illumination device | THOMAS, BRANDI N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407691 | MARKS FOR PRIVACY DISPLAY | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 146d overdue |
| 19264570 | WIDE ANGLE IMAGING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHTS | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| 18947149 | Reflective optical stack for switchable directional display | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407691 | MARKS FOR PRIVACY DISPLAY | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 146d overdue |
| 19264570 | WIDE ANGLE IMAGING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHTS | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | — |
| 18956938 | Observer-tracked privacy display | QURESHI, MARIAM | — |
| 18947149 | Reflective optical stack for switchable directional display | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 3 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264570 | WIDE ANGLE IMAGING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHTS | HUNTER, MISHAWN N | 2484 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 18956938 | Observer-tracked privacy display | QURESHI, MARIAM | 2871 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18947149 | Reflective optical stack for switchable directional display | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18734193 | Anamorphic directional illumination device | THOMAS, BRANDI N | 2872 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18407691 | MARKS FOR PRIVACY DISPLAY | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 2871 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialReald Spark LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Mishawn N Hunter has the most, with 1 of Reald Spark LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
