Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Metalenx Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 7 actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, meaning no two pending matters share the same examiner. STOCK JR, GORDON J is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action.
The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the 7 pending office actions are reviewed by 7 different examiners, they are concentrated within a few technical groups. The presence of 7 examiners across 3 art units suggests that multiple examiners are working within the same art units, which may lead to some consistency in technical oversight.
Managing 7 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with art unit-specific standards. Because the busiest examiner, STOCK JR, GORDON J, only manages 1 pending action, there is no single examiner who dominates the portfolio's current workload. Practitioners should be prepared for 7 different individual styles across the 3 art units.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOCK JR, GORDON J | 1 | 81.6% | +17.4% |
| HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 1 | 90.3% | +5.1% |
| FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 1 | 76.2% | +10.6% |
| SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | 1 | 75.4% | +8.8% |
| WILSON, PAISLEY L | 1 | 59.2% | +34.6% |
| CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 1 | 88.1% | +9.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174877 | WAVEFRONT DETECTION SYSTEM AND BUILDING METHOD OF OPTICAL PATH | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 18964654 | PIXEL STRUCTURE, METASURFACE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PIXEL STRUCTURE | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | — |
| 18641425 | TRANSMITTER USED IN LIDAR AND LIDAR | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923637 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR ToF AND DEPTH CAMERA OF ToF | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | — |
| 18915356 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL CAMERA WORKING AT FAR-INFRARED WAVEBAND | SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | — |
| 18810499 | ATHERMAL METALENS AND DESIGN METHOD | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174877 | WAVEFRONT DETECTION SYSTEM AND BUILDING METHOD OF OPTICAL PATH | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 18923637 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR ToF AND DEPTH CAMERA OF ToF | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | — |
| 18810499 | ATHERMAL METALENS AND DESIGN METHOD | WILSON, PAISLEY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 4 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174877 | WAVEFRONT DETECTION SYSTEM AND BUILDING METHOD OF OPTICAL PATH | STOCK JR, GORDON J | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18964654 | PIXEL STRUCTURE, METASURFACE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PIXEL STRUCTURE | HASAN, MOHAMMED A | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2024 |
| 18923637 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR ToF AND DEPTH CAMERA OF ToF | FISSEL, TRAVIS S | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18915356 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL CAMERA WORKING AT FAR-INFRARED WAVEBAND | SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18810499 | ATHERMAL METALENS AND DESIGN METHOD | WILSON, PAISLEY L | 2871 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18641425 | TRANSMITTER USED IN LIDAR AND LIDAR | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Metalenx Technology Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Gordon J Stock Jr. has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Metalenx Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
