Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. maintains 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing the distribution of technical review for the portfolio. THONG Q NGUYEN is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company is navigating different examination perspectives simultaneously. Because the 2 pending office actions are also spread across 2 distinct art units, the prosecution involves multiple technical subgroups within the USPTO. THONG Q NGUYEN manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is part of the 2 pending office actions. This distribution implies that no 1 examiner dominates the current workload, as the 2 distinct examiners each handle a portion of the active cases. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback, as the 2 distinct art units may apply different nuances of patent law within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| LEE, WOO KYUNG | 1 | 81.9% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904004 | DISPLAY BACKPLANE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 13d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904004 | DISPLAY BACKPLANE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 13d |
| 18313320 | VIEWING-ANGLE DIFFUSION FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18313320 | VIEWING-ANGLE DIFFUSION FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2023 |
| 17904004 | DISPLAY BACKPLANE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 2815 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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