Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swarovski-Optik AG & Co. KG has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, requiring separate examination reviews.
NGUYEN, THONG Q is the busiest examiner. Counsel should coordinate technical terminology across the portfolio while preparing examiner-specific responses for the separate art-unit assignments.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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% |
| SOHRABY, PARDIS | 1 | 80.4% | +5.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529780 | LONG-RANGE OPTICAL DEVICE | SOHRABY, PARDIS | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918924 | Telescope Having Two Tubes Having A Waist | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918924 | Telescope Having Two Tubes Having A Waist | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18529780 | LONG-RANGE OPTICAL DEVICE | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSwarovski-Optik AG & Co. KG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Thong Q Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Swarovski-Optik AG & Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
