Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saint-Gobain currently has 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending matters. The workload spans 3 distinct art units, showing some overlap in the technical groups reviewing the applications. This distribution suggests that while the examiners are different, the technical subject matter is concentrated enough to fall within a limited number of art units.
KHAN, IBRAHIM A is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Given that there are multiple pending office actions and distinct examiners, each examiner is currently processing an individual matter for the company. This decentralized approach in the Communications area means that Saint-Gobain is interacting with multiple patent office officials simultaneously. The outcome of the active matters will depend on the individual determinations of these various examiners across the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 1 | 82.1% | +12.2% |
| HARRIS, WILLIAM N | 1 | 73.9% | +13.0% |
| LIN, CHUN-NAN | 1 | 87.3% | +15.7% |
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 1 | 83.6% | +16.0% |
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 63.1% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19163283 | PROJECTION ASSEMBLY | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 19d |
| 19107951 | PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE GLASS OF VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248322 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF THE OPTICAL DISTORTIONS OF A WINDSHIELD ON THE IMAGE RECORDING QUALITY OF A DIGITAL IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 72d overdue |
| 19118268 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PDLC FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT HAVING SEVERAL INDEPENDENTLY SWITCHABLE SWITCHING REGIONS | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248322 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF THE OPTICAL DISTORTIONS OF A WINDSHIELD ON THE IMAGE RECORDING QUALITY OF A DIGITAL IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 72d overdue |
| 19163283 | PROJECTION ASSEMBLY | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 19d |
| 19144293 | ILLUMINABLE VEHICLE SUNROOF | HARRIS, WILLIAM N | — |
| 19118268 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PDLC FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT HAVING SEVERAL INDEPENDENTLY SWITCHABLE SWITCHING REGIONS | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 19107951 | PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE GLASS OF VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2628 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19163283 | PROJECTION ASSEMBLY | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19144293 | ILLUMINABLE VEHICLE SUNROOF | HARRIS, WILLIAM N | 2875 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19118268 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PDLC FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT HAVING SEVERAL INDEPENDENTLY SWITCHABLE SWITCHING REGIONS | LIN, CHUN-NAN | 2629 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19107951 | PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE GLASS OF VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18248322 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF THE OPTICAL DISTORTIONS OF A WINDSHIELD ON THE IMAGE RECORDING QUALITY OF A DIGITAL IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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